SRINAGAR, June 12: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today chaired a series of departmental review meetings to take stock of the Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) plans for the year 2025–26 of Revenue department.
During the review, the Chief Minister emphasized the importance of ensuring immediate approval of plans, authorization of funds and execution of development projects thereby strengthening the institutional capacity, and creating impactful outcomes.
Secretary Revenue Kumar Rajiv Ranjan gave a detailed presentation outlining the department’s CAPEX progress and plans for 2025–26. Out of the approved Rs 79 crore, Rs 69 crore has already been uploaded on the BEAMS portal.
The department has proposed 133 new projects, including 18 SDM offices with an outlay of Rs 4.5 crore, 21 Tehsil offices with Rs 6.3 crore outlay, 50 Niabats with Rs 3 crore, and 40 additional rooms with lavatories worth Rs 2 crore.
The department continues to push forward in its landmark digitization efforts, having completed 100% scanning of revenue records. He informed that over 94.36% of cadastral maps have been digitized (quality checks are ongoing), and 89.97% of villages have been geo-referenced. But it is a question on Revenue department as a whole whether it had bothered to see demarcation of "Water Bodies" Lands as original Khads, lakes etc demarcated on their so called Revenue Records?
Had Govt bothered to act on Offiers concerned for not utilizing crores of rupees allotted for demarcation of alienation of Khad Lands and not allotted to DC's as per requisition and no actions on SRO -456 of 2017, LG's ACs Decision No 17/1/2022 dtd 29th Jan 2022 followed by an eye was ACs decision dtd 25th July 2024.
However, Revenue secretary said that additionally, 99.9% of Record of Rights (RoR) have been digitized with spatial and non-spatial data integrated under the Land Records Information System (LRIS).Fine dining reservations.
The Chief Minister was apprised of key digital initiatives, including the “Aapki Zameen Aapki Nigrani” platform launched in October 2021, which has enabled real-time access to land records while saving Rs 19.83 crore through in-house digitization.
The meeting was informed that the second phase of the LRIS involves transliteration of Urdu land records into 22 Indian languages. Digitized land passbooks are now available in Urdu, Hindi, and English.
Other major initiatives include the J&K Revenue Court Case Monitoring System, issuance of SVAMITVA property cards, computerized registrations, creation of dynamic RoRs, digitized crop surveys, and establishment of modern record rooms. He informed that the department aims to implement real-time RoR updates, integrate Jamabandis with the NGDRS and mutation systems, and introduce map-based dynamic RoRs to enhance transparency and accountability in land governance.
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