Computers key to land records

Speaking to media persons, Chandra said that the land records of 50 tehsils in eight main districts including Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, Amravati, Aurangabad, Nashik, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg would be computerised on priority by March 1999.

“In fact, except for Sindhudurg, the computerisation of land records in the remaining eight district would be completed by December this year itself,” he said adding that computerisation of the land records in the remaining districts would be completed by the year 2,000.

Thus, if the scheme gets underway on schedule, in March 1999, a citizen of Pune can procure a 7/12 extract of the plot of land owned by him in a remote village in Sindhudurg district, without having to call on the village talathi.

Though implemented by the State Government, the “Operation LRC-50” is a Central Government project which was first launched in Madhya Pradesh last year and then extended across the country. Currently the work of feeding the data to computers is on in majority of the states, Chandra said adding that no State has yet completed the project.

The Central Government has agreed to issue 100 per cent grant to the project. The total cost on computerising the land records in Maharashtra and establishing a network linking all divisional land record offices is estimated to be over Rs 20 crore, Chandra said while pointing out that the State has already received a grant of Rs 8 crore.

Chandra said that the Maharashtra government has issued orders to celebrate May 16 as the State’s “land measurement day.” Accordingly, the Land Records Directorate has organised an exhibition of maps, equipments used for land measurement and charts giving information as to how the land records are preserved at the New Administrative building opposite Council Hall.

The two-day exhibition will be inaugurated at 4 pm tomorrow and will be open till 8 pm. The exhibition will also remain open on Sunday between 10 am and 5 pm. Booklets giving information about the functioning of the directorate and maps of several villages in Pune district would be available at the exhibition for sell. However, for procuring the maps the purchaser will have to make an application with a one rupee court stamp.

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