People will get land records in their own language soon, says Union Minister

What is the News?

The Union Minister for Rural Development has announced that everyone will soon be able to get their land records in their own language. Department of Land Resources is planning to release multilingual software from April 2022. After that, the land records will be available in 22 languages.

The Ministry also released an ebook on Land Governance Reforms announced in the Budget titled “Empowering Citizens-Powering India”.

What are the steps taken by the Government in Land Governance Reforms?

National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS)

Launched by: Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development

Purpose: It is a common, generic and configurable application developed for registration departments across the country. 

The application is specifically designed for the use of sub registrars, citizens and apex users from registration departments. It also facilitates states to create state-specific instances and configure the software as per requirements.

Significance: After NGDRS, a person had to go only once or twice to the office to complete the registration of the properties, whereas earlier he was expected to visit 8 to 9 times different offices to complete the registration process. 

Digital India Land Record Modernization Programme(DILRMP)

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ULPIN (Unique Land Parcel Identification Number)

ULPIN is just like the Aadhar Number of land parcels. In this, a unique ID based on Geo-coordinates of the parcels is generated and assigned to the plots.

This has been introduced to share the computerized digital land record data among different States/Sectors and a uniform system of assigning a unique ID to the land parcel across the country. 

Source: This post is based on the article “People will get land records in their own language soon, says Union Minister” published in PIB on 15th Mar 2022.