Citizens may soon get land record info on cell phone

Computerisation of records is part of Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme. It will help investors, say officials

LUCKNOW: People would get details of their land records on their smart phones in near future, if all goes as per plan.

The district administration is set to digitise land records and this would be of great help to investors and those interested in the sale and purchase of property in Lucknow, said officials.

Apart from providing easy access to land records, the arrangement would also help reduce the increasing number of land disputes, they said.

“The move will put a stop on land frauds and also make the entire system transparent,” said an administrative officer.

The ongoing digitisation is a part of Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) launched by the government of India.

The programme is aimed at computerisation of land records

including mutations, digitisation of maps and integration of textual and spatial data, survey and re-survey of settlement records.

The city has 961 villages. Of these, over 900 maps that were in good shape have been scanned and efforts are on to restore the old and tattered maps to complete the scanning part, said administrative officers.

Scanning was followed by the survey process where the administrative officials made

the field visits and corroborated the scanned data, in order to minimise the chances of errors.

“The scanning, surveying and digitisation work is in the last phase. Once completed, it would be uploaded on the Internet and would be visible to all,” said Kaushal Raj Sharma, district magistrate, Lucknow.

Sharma said the district administration has also written to the board of revenue, asking it to direct the company that carried out the digitisation, to make data available to the district administration for further uploading work.

Sharma said digitisation would be a boon for people who have to run from pillar to post to get land records.

At present, if one has to gain access to land records, the person has to appear in person at the collectorate to get land records, which is a cumbersome process. “Digitisation will be a cost and time effective move,” he added.

› The scanning, surveying and digitisation work is in the last phase. Once completed, it would be uploaded on the Internet and would be visible to all. KAUSHAL RAJ SHARMA, district magistrate, Lucknow