Now, access land records of 23 Chandigarh villages online

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 9

To bring in transparency and curb property frauds, the UT Revenue Department has completely digitised the land records of 23 villages.

Now, residents will no longer have to make rounds of the Office of Sub-Registrar to get details of their property, as all records are available online at a click of the mouse.

UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore today inaugurated the digitised Records of Rights (RoR) of 23 out of the 25 villages of Chandigarh in the presence of UT Adviser Manoj Parida, Home Secretary Arun Kumar Gupta, Deputy Commissioner Mandip Singh Brar and other senior officials.

'Work underway for remaining 2 villages'

The current digitisation of the land records was started in 2019 and the work was in progress in Burail and Mani Majra villages. — Mandip Singh Brar, Deputy Commissioner

Now, more than 35,000 shareholders can access, check and even download their ownership record through any of the three search criteria — the owner's name, khewat number or khasra number — at any location.

A link has been made available on the website of the Chandigarh Administration https://ift.tt/1mxRS5B.

"Now, all records are stored in a digital format. It will keep the revenue records updated and put a check on any irregularities in it," said the DC.

Further, the revenue record has also been integrated with the Office of Sub-Registrar. This integration would initiate the mutation process automatically after the registration of document at the Office of Sub-Registrar, added the DC.

So far, all RoR documents are maintained manually by the patwari concerned of these villages.

Brar said, "The Records of Rights/jamabandi of each village is required to be updated every fifth year as per the Land Record Manual. However, the updation of the revenue records has been neglected for decades in the UT."

The consignments of many jamabandis were pending for more than 30 years, he said, adding that the poor maintenance of revenue records had led to many irregularities and some even led to vigilance inquiries.

He said the current digitisation of the land records was started in 2019 and the work was in progress in Burail and Mani Majra villages.

Brar said a certified copy or 'nakal' of the RoR would be issued centrally to the residents at the modern record office of the tehsildar, which was being established besides the Office of Sub-Registrar. All mutations, lien, charge or stay orders, etc, would be entered online to improve service delivery and better transparency.

He said the integration of digitised land records with the Office of Sub-Registrar would help in online verification of revenue records such as ownership details, etc, and the mutation process would auto-trigger in the revenue records immediately after the registration of documents.

On further simplification of work, he said they would scan all (old and new) revenue records and registered deeds. He said they were also preparing cadastral maps of land in digital forms and integration of the Office of Sub-Registrar with the Estate Office and the CHB was in the pipeline.

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