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Recently, the Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural Development) has provided information to the Standing Committee on Rural Development on the Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) scheme.
About the Scheme
- It has been launched in ten States in 2021 and will be rolled out across the country by March 2022.
- It has been described as “Aadhaar for land”, in which the central government has the plan to introduce a 14-digit alpha-numeric unique identification number for every plot of land in the country within a year.
- The identification will be based on the longitude and latitude coordinates of the land parcel and is dependent on detailed surveys and geo-referenced cadastral maps.
- The unique IDs would be of international standard and compliance with the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) standard and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.
- The land records database will then reportedly be integrated with revenue court records and bank records.
- Costs Involved
- Linking Aadhaar with land records would cost Rs. 3 per record while seeding and authentication of landowner Aadhaar data would cost Rs. 5 each.
- It added that the integration of the Aadhaar numbers with the land record database would be done on a voluntary basis.
- Creating a modern land record room in every district would cost Rs. 50 lakh per district, while the integration of land records with the Revenue Court Management System would cost Rs. 270 crore.
- Linking Aadhaar with land records would cost Rs. 3 per record while seeding and authentication of landowner Aadhaar data would cost Rs. 5 each.
- Significance
- Unique and Up-to-Dated Transactions: Ensure uniqueness in all transactions and keep the land records always up-to-date and a link to all property transactions gets established.
- Single Window Accessibility: Delivery of citizen services of land records through the single window and sharing of land records data across departments, financial institutions and all stakeholders.
- Better Integration and Interoperability: Standardization at data and application-level would bring in effective integration and interoperability across departments. It will provide compatibility so that all states can adopt it easily.
- Prevention of Land Fraud: The uniquely identified number will prevent land fraud, especially in rural India, where land records are outdated and often disputed.
- Inputs to Other Schemes: These components will enhance the service deliveries to the citizens and will also function as inputs to other schemes of sectors like Agriculture, Finance Disaster Management, etc.
- This is the next step in the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), which began in 2008 and has been extended several times as its scope grew.
- Proper land statistics and land accounting through ULPIN will help develop land banks and lead towards Integrated Land Information Management System (ILIMS).
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Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme
National Generic Document Registration System
Electronic Commerce Code Management Association
Open Geospatial Consortium
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Source: TH
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