December 18, 2023: Land records of 13 states and four Union territories (UTs) have been digitised and onboarded to the Centre’s platform coordinating infrastructure building between the central ministries, states and UTs under the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan (PMGS-NMP), according to a livemint report. The development leaves data from six states yet to be digitally integrated.
The 13 states that have integrated their land records are Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Punjab, Telangana and Tripura.
The four UTs that have onboarded NMP are Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi and Puducherry.
As stated in the report, nine states and three UTs have partially digitised land records. These are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, along with Jammu & Kashmir, Chandigarh and Ladakh.
Six states have yet to integrate their digital land records, which include Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Nagaland and Meghalaya. One UT, Lakshadweep, has also not yet digitised its land records.
The PMGS-NMP programme will reduce the time and costs involved in project implementation as it provides easy data access to stakeholders, two officials said, as cited in the media report. Digital land records are one of the key layers among 249 data layers under the programme. Land acquisition and forest clearance are two major constituents of infrastructure planning because they are time-consuming, even as mapping of land resources makes project planning seamless, an official said, as mentioned in the report.
He further said that the Network Planning Group (NPG) under the PM Gati Shakti initiative for logistics efficiency is working in tandem with all stakeholders to integrate digital land records. The NPG provides free training to state officials for better planning of land record digitisation.
What is the Network Planning Group?
The Integrated Multimodal Network Planning Group (NPG) comprises heads of the Network Planning Division of all connectivity infrastructure Ministries and Departments. It is responsible for unified planning and integration of the proposals and assists the Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGOS) under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary in respect of its mandate.
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