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Regional Director Survey speed up process of digitalization of records

Subodh Bhasin. Dated: 1/15/2019 11:49:55 AM

Subodh Bhasin
Jammu, Jan 14
In a major exercise to ensure transparency, J&K will have more advanced and accurate digital land records with satellite images by 2020. In this regard the Regional Director Survey and Land Records hired the services of RAM TECH Software India and assigned the job of scanning, computerization of various old revenue records be­sides settlement operations to the Agency.
The digital database will have all land records since 18th century when the erstwhile Dogra kings used to rule the state.
The initiative will curb the menace created by the land mafia in the state, the satellite images will be uploaded on the portal of the revenue department and the present records will be synchronised after cross- checking the ground maps.
Few months ago the authorities directed the Rev­enue Department to speed up the digitization of land records and the Revenue Department was asked to complete the task of digitization of land records in a time bound manner.
To digitalise the revenue records, the department has started scanning of documents in all districts of Jammu region. Although it is a lengthy process and a deadline of June 30 is fixed to complete the scanning process. It is expected that the concerned department will complete the exercise before the deadline as nearly 97 per cent of the documents are already scanned. The department has estimated that the complete digitalisation will be completed by mid 2020 as after scanning all maps and documents available since 18th century, the settlement process will be initiated and subsequently, the task of putting everything on the portal will also be done.
The agency has been given the task for satellite images, which is expected to be done by May this year. The images need cloud-free and crop-free land to get the exact picture. After they are uploaded on the portal, they will have the name of the present as well as the previous owners of a particular land
J&K has thousands of land dispute cases in different courts and most of the crime incidents take place because of such disputes. The department claims that digitalisation will give transparent and disput-free records to the owners and buyers of land and will also reduce the effort to get land records for different purposes.