July 19, 2023: President Droupadi Murmu on July 18 presented the Bhoomi Samman to nine state secretaries and 68 district collectors along with their teams for achieving saturation of the core components of the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP).
The President said that the acceleration of rural development was essential for the overall development of the country. “For the development of rural areas, modernisation of land records is a basic requirement as the livelihood of most of the rural population is dependent on land resources. A comprehensive integrated land management system is of utmost importance for the overall development of rural areas,” she said.
The President said that digitisation increased transparency.
“Modernisation and digitisation of land records would have a great impact on the development of the country. Digitization of land records and its linkages with various government departments would help in proper implementation of welfare schemes. It would also be of great help in case of loss of documents due to calamities like flood and fire,” said the President.
The President noted that under the Digital India Land Information Management System, a unique land parcel identification number was being provided which could be useful like the Aadhaar Card. She stated that this number would help in making proper use of the lands as well as forming and implementing new welfare schemes. Linking of e-courts with land records and registration database would have many benefits. The transparency that is coming from digitisation would curb unethical and illegal activities related to land.
The President said that access to land related information in a free and convenient manner would have many benefits. She stated that a large population of the country was involved in disputes related to land and a lot of time of the administration and the judiciary was consumed in these matters. “Through digitisation and linkages of information, the energy of the people and institutions, which gets consumed in resolving disputes, would be utilised for development,” she said.
Minister of state, steel & rural development Faggan Singh Kulaste said that the digitisation process of land records and registration will help mitigate the huge pendency of court cases involving land disputes cutting down the GDP loss to the country’s economy due to projects being stalled over litigation involving land disputes. Kulaste emphasised that his department had initiated performance-based grading in six core components of DILRMP. The grading has been done on the basis of performance of districts as reflected in the Management Information System (MIS) of the DILRMP and as reported by the state/UT government.
(Images sourced from the Twitter feed of the President of India – Droupadi Murmu)
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