Land Stack Initiative

News: Union Minister for Rural Development and Agriculture chaired a review meeting of the Department of Land Resources on progress under key initiatives, including DILRMP 3.0 and the Land Stack Initiative.

About Land Stack Initiative

• The Land Stack is envisaged as an integrated, GIS-based digital platform to provide single-window access to land and property information for both citizens and government agencies.
• Launched by: It has been launched by the Ministry of Rural Development.
• It was launched under the Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme (DILRMP).
• It seeks to build an interoperable digital ecosystem for land governance, integrating various land-related databases.
• Benefits of Land Stack:
  • The Land Stack portal enables informed decision-making by citizens through integrated access to land-related information.
  • It enhances citizen convenience, transparency and trust.
  • It reduces the risk of inadvertent purchase of unauthorised or non-compliant properties.
  • It improves inter-departmental coordination and supports data-driven governance.
  • It represents a significant e-Governance reform in land administration.

About DILRMP 3.0 DILRMP is an initiative to modernise the management of Land Records, minimise the scope of land/property disputes and enhance transparency in the land records maintenance system. Scheme Type: It is a central sector scheme launched in 2016 under the Ministry of Rural Development. It envisages modernization and digitization of land records infrastructure across the country. Components: Key components include: Computerisation of land records Modernisation of tehsil-level record rooms Georeferencing and assignment of Unique Land Parcel Identification Numbers (ULPIN) Aadhaar seeding, mobile number and address integration in land records databases Computerisation of revenue courts and their integration with land records systems Development of Core GIS and Land Stack software Implementation of pilot projects for urban land records mapping.