VISAKHAPATNAM: Collector Pravin Kumar and joint collector J Nivas jointly inaugurated Field Measurement Book (FMB) Digitisation Centre at the collectorate on Saturday. The digitisation is undertaken to safeguard the revenue records and for one time sub-division.
The digitisation was taken up under the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) in the state. The work has been carried out using Collab Land software 2.4 developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), New Delhi.
On the occasion, the collector said that 2,41,990 FMBs are to be digitised covering 3,022 revenue villages of 43 mandals and 29,460 FMBs were digitised. As many as 106 computers were installed in the centre for the digitisation work. The FMBs digitised would be checked by CAD analysts, team leader and finally by Survey department personnel as a part of quality control measurement, the collector said.