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Land Records Management System in India – Technical Framework
Vinay Thakur
Email: vinay@hub.nic.in
Ganesh Khadanga
Email: ganesh@hub.nic.in
D.S Venkatesh
Email: venkat@hub.nic.in
Dr D.R Shukla
Email: shukla@hub.nic.in
Land Records Information Systems Division
National Informatics Centre, New Delhi
SD Meena
IAS, Director, Land Reforms, DOLR,
Ministry of Rural Development
Email: sdmeena@hub.nic.in
Telephone: 9111-24362093, 4361133 Ext-4591/4581
1.0 Introduction:
Although it is part of man's natural heritage, access to land is controlled by ownership patterns. Land is partitioned for administrative and economic purposes, and it is used and transformed in a myriad ways. Population growth, technological and social hazards, and environmental degradation have all to be taken into greater account today by policy makers, resource planners, and administrators who make decisions about the land. They need more detailed land information than has been traditionally available. Although the printed map is still useful, computerized systems offer improved ways of acquiring, storing, processing and retrieving such information.
More recently, the need for thoughtful and careful stewardship of the land, together with the more intensive use and management of its resources, has emerged as a matter of major global concern. This has led to a re-evaluation both of the need for information about the land and of the strategies and programmes that may provide it. Increasingly it has been recognized that policy makers, planners, land administrators, and individual citizens all have a need for information about the land make significant use of spatial data on a day to day basis. Accurate knowledge of natural resources and accurate description and record of such knowledge are the essential prerequisite to their rational use and conservation. Land information is prime requisite for making decisions related to land investment, development and management. Information reduces uncertainty by helping to identify and analyze problems. Strategies to overcome them may then be prepared and implemented. The value of the information and the effectiveness of the decision making process are directly related to the quality of the information and the manner in which it is made available.
The paper covers all the aspects of land records information maintenance system and technologies, which have been used presently. Land records are very important because these form the basis for assignment and settlement of land titles, these must stand against legal scrutiny.
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