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New Delhi: As rural land records are evolving, urban land management must also grow to meet the demands of rapid urbanization, Minister of State for Rural Development Chandra Shekhar Pemmasani said in New Delhi on Tuesday, adding that India Has already digitalized land records of 625,000 villages. Across the country.
According to a press release, the Minister of State at the Workshop on Survey of Urban Land Records said that more than administrative tools, accurate land records are the backbone of socio-economic planning, public service delivery and conflict resolution.
Use of technology to reduce disputes
Pemmasani’s comments underline the central government’s focus on using technology in land records to reduce disputes. In July, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced major reforms regarding land, labor and technology in her budget speech.
These include assigning a unique land parcel identification number (ULPIN), also known as “geo-Aadhaar”, to all land parcels, digitizing cadastral maps, surveying map sub-divisions based on current ownership, This will include setting up a land registry. Linking it to the registry of farmers for rural land.
Urban land records will also be digitalized using GIS mapping tools, the Finance Minister had said, adding that states would be encouraged to implement these reforms faster with a 50-year interest-free loan.
Pemmasani called for using digital technology to avoid errors in recording land measurements. The use of tools such as drones, aircraft-based surveys and satellite imagery can provide accurate maps and reduce human error, he said.
“By creating spatially efficient land records we can resolve long-standing issues such as ownership claims, inconsistent land valuation and boundary disputes,” he said.
“Now is the time to move beyond traditional expensive and time-consuming surveys and adopt these advanced technologies for a new era in urban governance,” the minister said.
The Department of Land Resources has launched a pilot project to digitize urban land records in 130 cities of the country in the next one year. The scheme named “National Geospatial Knowledge-Based Land Survey of Urban Settlements (NAKSHA)” aims to complete the exercise in 4,900 cities in the next five years.
Speakers from industry partners and international experts from the US, Spain, South Korea, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Japan and Australia presented their views during the workshop.
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