Uttar Pradesh News: Big update regarding land records in UP, now cities will like villages
UP News: The Uttar Pradesh government is now taking important steps towards digitizing land records and preparing land maps in cities (urban areas) on the lines of villages. Land records will be made in cities like villages in UP. A map of the land will be made. There are ten bodies in the pilot project. This will prevent fraud and ownership determination.
Uttar Pradesh News: Like villages, land records of cities will also be made in Uttar Pradesh. Ten bodies of the state are included in the map pilot program started by the central government.
This will stop fraud in ownership and transfer of property. On Monday, Revenue Council Chairman Anil Kumar and Secretary of Land Resources Department of Union Rural Development Ministry Manoj Joshi gave this information.
The Union Secretary saw the "map" being made in Uttar Pradesh under the Digital India Land Record Modernization Program (DILRMP) and the program to create land records of urban areas.
A comprehensive integrated database of urban land
He said that in the first phase, records of land in urban areas are being made in 157 urban local bodies of 27 states and three union territories of the country. This includes ten bodies of UP.
Its urban areas include Tanda Ambedkarnagar, Nawabganj Barabanki, Anupshahar Bulandshahar, Chitrakootdham, Gorakhpur, Hardoi, Jhansi, Chunar Mirzapur, Puranpur Pilibhit and Tilhar Shahjahanpur. A comprehensive integrated database of urban land is being created by conducting aerial and field surveys in these bodies.
About 22.27 percent of the state's population lives in urban areas, he said. It is estimated that by 2031, the urban population will increase to about 40%. The land that has been registered for tax collection in the urban areas of the state is not sufficient for determining ownership rights.
The urban land records prepared in the map program will make the status of the land clear, including ownership rights. This will prevent fraud in transactions of urban assets and will ease judicial proceedings in disputes.
After the map is prepared, it will be easy to provide infrastructure facilities according to population density, he said. Tax collection, disaster preparedness and private investment will be facilitated.
The central officials also discussed the ground level challenges in building it with the nodal officers of the selected ten urban bodies.
Kunal Satyarthi, Joint Secretary of the Union Ministry of Land Resources Department Rural Development, Principal Secretary-Revenue, Stamp and Registration, Commissioner and Secretary Revenue Council, among others, were present in the meeting.