Table 2 - Department of Land Resources

LRISD, NIC(Hqrs)
Computerisation of Land Records (CLR) is 100 percent centrally sponsored scheme of
Government of India which is being successfully implemented in more than five hundred
fifty districts (in more than 3000 Tehsils/Taluks) as joint venture project of Department
of Land Resources(DOLR), NIC and State Governments. DOLR provides funds to the
States for Data entry, Verification, Validation and setting up of Tehsil and District
Centres whereas NIC extends necessary technical support in terms of Software Design,
Development, Training and Consultancy and States carry out data entry and
operationalisation of scheme.
The CLR project has won national and international recognition in Egovernance domain.
Bhoomi project of Karnataka was awarded with international awards for its success.
Similarly Apnakhata in Rajasthan; Tamil NILAM in Tamilnadu; Bhuabhilekh in M.P.,
A.P, Orissa, Haryana; Bhuiyan in Chattisgarh; Dharini in Goa; Bhumi in WB are some
of the success stories in LR domain. In many other states, project implementation is being
accorded high priority. Registration Project, has been successfully implemented by
different States in around 1872 SROs known as CARD, PRISM, Dastavej, ORIS,
GARVI, STAR, PEARL, HIMRIS and CORD etc.
At present, Land record databases are being created & maintained at tehsil/taluk/revenue
circle level with non-spatial data. Registration Database is being maintained at Sub-
Registrar offices. The databases capture the information pertaining to Ownership with
plot details such as area; crop; irrigation; soil and transactions etc. The number of basic
registers containing land records data is varying from States to States. However there are
master registers which contains the details of land ownership and plot details. These
master registers are often known as khata register and plot register. These plot register
contains the land records details of all the plots.
It was decided at apex level that this information may need to be integrated at State and
National level for data warehousing and mining purposes. Further Land Records and
Registration also needs to be integrated which requires uniformity in nomenclature and
format of various attributes and data within the LR & Registration domain across all the
states. From this point of view, an attempt is being made to formulate a Uniform Coding
Scheme/Standards, which shall be followed by all the states to facilitate collaboration and
interoperability. This may facilitate multipurpose information and knowledge exchange
within Land Resource domain as well as collaboration with other national level
databases. All attributes for National Level Codification will be described in the English
language to begin with. The national level data repository will be used for management
information systems and planning.
At present land records databases which are being maintained in various states are
following state specific set of codes for different attributes like crop, soil, land use,
irrigation, season, area unit and location. The Land Records Information Systems
Division of National Informatics Centre, New Delhi has initiated an exercise to
standardize the coding scheme for different entities in the land records database
exclusively for Data warehousing and Mining purposes for central/state datacentres.
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