Unique ID for all land parcels by March 2022: Centre

The Centre plans to challenge a 14-digit identification quantity to each plot of land within the nation inside a 12 months’s time. It will subsequently combine its land data database with income courtroom data and financial institution data, in addition to Aadhaar numbers on a voluntary foundation, in accordance with a Parliamentary standing committee report submitted to the Lok Sabha final week.

The Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) scheme has been launched in ten States this 12 months and might be rolled out throughout the nation by March 2022, the Department of Land Resources informed the Standing Committee on Rural Development.

One Department official, who didn’t want to be named, described it as “the Aadhaar for land”, a quantity that will uniquely establish each surveyed parcel of land and stop land fraud, particularly within the hinterlands of rural India, the place land data are outdated and infrequently disputed. The identification might be primarily based on the longitude and latitude coordinates of the land parcel, and depends on detailed surveys and geo-referenced cadastral maps, in accordance with a presentation the Department made to States in September 2020.

This is the subsequent step within the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), which started in 2008 and has been prolonged a number of instances as its scope grew. It’s as a consequence of come to an finish subsequent week, however the Department has proposed an additional extension to 2023-24, to finish its authentic targets in addition to develop its ambit with a slew of latest schemes.

“This Department has taken new initiatives under the programme like NGDRS [or the National Generic Document Registration System], ULPIN, linking of court to land records, integration [of] consent based Aadhaar number with land records etc. which necessitated its further extension beyond 2020-21 till 2023-24,” the Department informed the parliamentary panel.

“Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) is proposed to be rolled out in 10 States during FY 2020-21 and by 2021-22 in the entire country,” it added.

The Department’s presentation to the parliamentary panel listed the proposed value for a number of the new initiatives. Linking Aadhaar with land data by way of ULPIN would value ₹3 per document, it mentioned, whereas seeding and authentication of landowner Aadhaar information would value ₹5 every. It added that the combination of the Aadhaar numbers with the land document database can be executed on a voluntary foundation.

Creating a contemporary land document room in each district would value ₹50 lakh per district, whereas the combination of land data with the Revenue Court Management System would value ₹270 crore. It additionally added that DILRMP’s subsequent section would come with “linkage of land record database with banks”.

“These components will enhance the service deliveries to the citizen of the country and will also function as inputs to the schemes of the other sectors like Agriculture, Finance Disaster Management etc,” the Department informed the panel, including that ULPIN has been really helpful by the Sectoral Group of Secretaries.