Land Records Management System in India – Technical Framework

Vinay Thakur
Email: vinay@hub.nic.in

Ganesh Khadanga
Email: ganesh@hub.nic.in

D.S Venkatesh
Email: venkat@hub.nic.in

Dr D.R Shukla
Email: shukla@hub.nic.in

Land Records Information Systems Division
National Informatics Centre, New Delhi


SD Meena
IAS, Director, Land Reforms, DOLR,
Ministry of Rural Development
Email: sdmeena@hub.nic.in
Telephone: 9111-24362093, 4361133 Ext-4591/4581



Abstract
Land is the habitat of man and its wide use is crucial for the economic, social, and environmental advancement of the country. Maintaining this vast land records data consisting of cadastral maps and alphanumeric data containing record of rights and crop statistics has always been a challenge to revenue department. Ministry of Rural Development and National Informatics Centre devised to use IT as a tool for maintaining this voluminous land records data. That will be a mammoth task as it envisages use of upcoming technologies such as GIS, Web, Open Source, smartcard and Data warehousing for the administration, distribution and analysis of land data, at all stages viz. recording, retrieving, disseminating & employing the data. Developing such Infrastructure, will lead to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of land management both from the perspective of the common man as well as that of managers implementing land based development activities.