Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 28: A two day workshop-cum-training on scanning and digitization of land records was organized at the Revenue Training Institute here.
The two day workshop organized under Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP) was conducted on the directions of the Revenue Minister, Abdul Rehman Veeri and concluded here today.
Commissioner, Survey and Land records, Shahid Anayatullah, inaugurated the workshop which was attended by Regional Director, Survey and Land Records, Rifat Kohli, Principal Revenue Training Institute, Harvinder Kour, Assistant Settlement Officer, Jammu, Tehsildars, Consultant, JaKLaRMA, Project Co-ordinator, DILRMP, Jammu Sr. Manager, Ramtech Software Solutions Private Limited (service Provider), Naib Tehsildas, Girdawars and Patwaris of all the tehsils of district Jammu.
“The project envisages transparency and clarity in the title of the land holders which will ultimately minimize the land disputes” Anayatullah asserted. He said that updated Jamabandis are the pre-requisite for the implementation of the project and if the service provider does not get updated Jamabandis, the project will not meet its desired ambition.
The Regional Director, Survey and Land Records, Jammu acquainted the participants with various components of the project. She informed about the scanning, Khasra indexing, data entry of the textual records, digitization of the cadastral map and its use with respect to the satellite imagery and integration with the records.
Dr. Rana Singh presented a power point presentation with regard to the scope and objectives of the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme. He acquainted the officers about the way in which the project will be carried out in the State. He said, in Phase-I, two districts viz., Jammu and Srinagar have been taken up for end to end solution.
However, three activities viz., Establishment of Ground Control Points (GCPs) network across the State, scanning of old records/archival of scanned data and development of Web-based Enterprise GIS are to be taken up in one go for the entire State in Phase I only. Ten more districts will be taken up in Phase-II and the remaining in Phase-III.
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