Cropping pattern on GIS
With a fully integrated GIS based land record system one can look at the cropping pattern on the map itself. The gaps in the cropping areas could be ascertained online. Similarly, the change in cropping pattern over a period of time could be ascertained online using the (FMB) map interface.
Sub division of existing parcels on the map can be done online too!
The link between text based data and GIS
The beauty of the Indian land administration system is that when the users update any part of the land record information online, the other part is designed to reflect it. Various manual registers are maintained for this purpose. In a professionally computerised environment with full e-governance features, these changes would get reflected in all electronic registers automatically. For example, a mutation/sub-division of land parcel carried out online using the FMB module automatically should reflect in the village land record register as well as the Register of record of rights.
In theory, the details found in each and every FMB/FMT map should be found in the text based registers as well. But this is more a dream than a reality. There is no automatic tool to ensure this co-ordination except through an integrated computerised environment. An integrated computerised land administration system is still at dream level all over India. As a result, one can find a huge gap between the text based land records and the survey number wise sketches/FMBs. Wherever this gap is huge, such village records become a headache to the agriculture sector, thus rendering the life of the farmers and the lending institutions miserable. The need of the hour in India is to formulate a scheme to integrate the text based land record data with the graphic (map) data with provision for continuous online updating in the field offices. There are serious issues arising out of the above proposition due to the enormity of the task involved in converting the (paper) map data into electronic database compliant format within the permissible deviation levels.
