CONFERENCE OF STATE REVENUE
SECRETARIES’ INAUGURATED
UNDER
COMPUTERIZATION OF LAND RECORDS, 582 DISTRICTS AND 2970 TEHSILS/TALUKS
COVERED
Computerization of
Land Records is regarded as the first successful e-governance
project in the country due to timely initiative taken by Ministry
of Rural Development. So far Rs.265 crore have been released to
the States/UTs for covering 582 districts and 2970 Tehsils under
the Scheme. The basic objective of the Scheme is that the landowner
should get efficient delivery services from the revenue administration
in a more transparent and friendly environment. This was informed
by Shri Lalit Mathur, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Rural
Development while inaugurating Conference Of State Revenue Secretaries’
here today. He said states like Karnataka Goa, Tamilnadu, Rajasthan,
Orissa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra
Pradesh and Pondicherry have shown good progress under the scheme.
He urged upon the State Governments to give legal sanctity to
the computerized copy of Record of Rights by amending the revenue
rules, fix suitable user charges for sustainability and abolish
the parallel system of issuing copies of Records of Rights.
Highlighting the
progress of various land reforms programmes in the country, Shri
Mathur said that till March, 2002, the total quantum of land declared
surplus in the entire country was 73.73 lakh acres, out of which
53.94 lakh acres had been distributed to 56.47 lakh beneficiaries
of whom 36 per cent belong to Scheduled Caste and 15% to Scheduled
Tribes. An area of 147.47 lakh acres of government wasteland and
21.75 lakh acres of Bhoodan Land has been distributed to rural
poor.
Till date 124.22
lakh tenants have got their rights protected over an area of 156.30
lakh acres of land. 4.33 lakh acres of alienated land restored
to tribals and 1633.4 lakh acres of land has been consolidated.
Shri Mathur said
that the Vision of the Ministry under the Scheme is to establish
efficient and transparent delivery mechanism to the grass root
level using Information & Communication Technologies (ICT).
There is need to work out modalities for delivery of services
at the doorstep by setting up of front-end shops at village level.
The huge database, which is now digitally available, with the
Ministry, should be used for multiple citizen centric services
like issuance of various certificates for domicile, income, caste,
solvency etc. This data base can be used by Panchayat Raj Institutions
and other functionaries for mircro & macro planning and can
be verticality integrated with other related Departments.
Representatives from
Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Goa,
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala,
Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa,
Punjab, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh,
West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Daman & Diu, Chandigarh,
Uttaranchal, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand participated in the Conference.
