SRINAGAR, Oct 8: Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo on Wednesday reviewed the progress of the Digitization and Modernization of Land Records Project in Jammu and Kashmir, emphasising the need for accuracy, transparency, and efficiency in maintaining land ownership records.
The meeting was attended by Secretary, Revenue Kumar Rajeev Ranjan; Director, Survey & Land Records; Inspector General, Registration; CEO, State Health Agency, and other senior officers, while all Deputy Commissioners joined via video conferencing.
Dulloo highlighted that discrepancies in land records are a major source of disputes, directing officials to monitor progress closely and complete the modernization process within six to seven months. He instructed the Director, Land Records, to issue guidelines for the recreation of missing cadastral maps (musavis) in certain villages, to be completed within two months.
Officials said the program includes digitization of Jamabandis (Record of Rights), geo-referencing of cadastral maps, sub-parcelization, end-to-end registration digitization, modernization of record rooms, computerization of revenue courts, NAKSHA in urban bodies, and SVAMITVA property card distribution in rural areas.
The Revenue Secretary informed that data entry for 4,519 villages out of 6,857 has been completed, and a backlog mutation module to update records until 2025 has been tested in five villages. Parcel attribution under PM Gati Shakti is expected to finish within a month. Out of 6,217 geo-referenced maps, 4,240 have been ground-truthed.
Registration computerization is expected to become fully paperless within two weeks, digitizing legacy data since 1990. Under SVAMITVA, 52,265 property cards have been distributed across 1,200 villages, and drone surveys are near completion. The NAKSHA scheme is being piloted in Bishnah, Katra, Pattan, and Awantipora.
Reiterating the government’s commitment, the Chief Secretary directed the Revenue Department to integrate all modules under the Digital Land Records Modernization Programme (DLRMP), enhancing public service delivery and reducing land-related disputes across the Union Territory.
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