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J-K digitises 70 lakh land parcels, 13 lakh errors fixed
Jammu and Kashmir has completed digitisation and updation of nearly 70 lakh land parcels under the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, with more than 13 lakh discrepancies rectified after public scrutiny…
Jammu and Kashmir has completed digitisation and updation of nearly 70 lakh land parcels under the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, with more than 13 lakh discrepancies rectified after public scrutiny and verification. Over 2,500 revenue field functionaries have been given role-based access for data entry, verification and approval.
The exercise carried out by the revenue department with BISAG-N includes a three-tier maker-checker-approver mechanism that creates an electronic audit trail. More than 6,800 village-level camps have been held for public reading of jamabandis, and digitised records are available on the JK Zameen Sudhaar portal.
The verified database is being transformed to support the Centre's AgriStack framework under the digital agriculture mission, which requires accurate association of farmers with their landholdings. So far, 31.26 lakh khasra records have been converted into owner-extent format. The initiative aims to deliver more efficient subsidies, credit, insurance and procurement-related services to farmers.
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Land records in India are governed by state-specific laws and have long suffered from inconsistent maintenance, a problem the Centre's DILRMP has targeted since 2008. Jammu and Kashmir's push to digitise 70 lakh parcels and clear 13 lakh errors is among the most ambitious state-level rollouts under that programme. The scale matters because land disputes clog Indian courts: an estimated two-thirds of civil cases involve land or property. AgriStack, the central framework the verified data will feed, is a national project to create a unified Farmers Registry that links subsidies, credit and insurance to a validated plot. Whether the 31.26 lakh khasras already converted into the required owner-extent format can sustain the pace will determine if J-K meets the timeline the revenue department set for full integration.
Source: greaterkashmir.com
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