(Online Land Records)

Project Details: The non-vector part of the land record viz Khasra and B1 etc. are already automated in most of the States. However, the digitisation of Naksha or the vector part of land record has been the biggest challenge and not yet accomplished by any State Government. As a part of GIS, all the land records have been digitized in the State of Chhattisgarh. In an unparallel exercise, more than 20,000 villages have been covered and more than 48,000 topographic sheets have been digitised. The digitisation process included utilisation of remote sensing satellite maps, scanning of existing cadastral maps, vectorisation of cadastral maps, geo-referencing of cadastral maps & adding attribute information to it. This is a unique project where integration of geo-referenced cadastral maps with non-vector database has been completed. Further, as a strategy to over come the challenge of up-gradation of digital maps, a software has been developed to capture the mutation of land records online.

Milestones:

·         First State in the Country to digitize all the Land Records

·         First State in the Country to develop software to capture the mutation of land records online

·         Land Records of more than 20,000 villages digitized

·         Enablement of decentralized distribution of land records on an online mode

·         3 lakh records distributed till date

·         Patwaris trained on the operation of software

Impact:              

·         Instant access to land records effectively reduced the delay in issuing land records and increase in the efficiency of Government Officials

·         Substantial reduction in the corruption level

·         The project helped in bridging the digital divide and improving the e-literacy level at grass-root level.