THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has become the first state in the country to implement an integrated land portal providing all land- related services from Revenue, Registration and Survey Departments, Revenue Minister K. Rajan said on Tuesday. Villages covered under the ongoing digital survey are added to the portal in a phased manner.
“Globally, Estonia, Singapore, New Zealand and South Korea have digitized their land records and provided such seamless updation of both textual record and Digital Land Parcel map immediately after land registration. In India, Kerala is the first state to achieve this standard in land administration," Rajan said.
The minister was presiding over the inauguration of the ‘Ente Bhoomi’ Integrated land portal. He said four states — Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Puducherry — have expressed interest in starting a similar portal. The Union government has asked the state to provide support to Assam, he said.
Through the project, Rajan said, Kerala has completed the survey of 4.8 lakh hectares of land in 35.2 lakh parcels falling in 212 villages. "Through this, the government has brought the services of three departments — Revenue, Survey and Registration — under one system. Land complaints submission, land tax payment, Thandaper Certificate, pre-mutation sketch, template system for land registration, fair value determination, encumbrance certificate, auto-mutation and location sketch are available through the portal," he pointed out.
Inaugurating the portal, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the first village to be included in the portal is Ujar Ulvar in Kasaragod district. It was the first village where the digital survey was completed. "Twelve new services are now accessible to the people as part of the government’s 100-Day Programme. The Ente Bhoomi portal will be helpful to all the people in the state," he said.
Ministers Kadannappally Ramachandran, K. Krishnan Kutty and G.R. Anil, MLAs Antony Raju and V.K. Prasanth, District Panchayat president D. Suresh Kumar, Chief Secretary Sarada Muraleedharan, ACS Taxes Dr. Jayathilak, Principal Secretary Tinku Biswal, Land Revenue Commissioner Dr. Kowsigan, IG Registration Sreedhanya and Seeram Sambasiva Rao, Survey Director and head of the "Ente Bhoomi" project were also present.
First state in the country to implement the system that exists only in a handful of digitally advanced nations.
A survey of 4.8 lakh hectares of land in 32.5 lakh parcels in 221 villages completed through ILIMS.
Services of Revenue, Survey and Registration departments under one system.