The Chhattisgarh Revenue Department has conducted aerial survey of total 237 Bastar division villages with the help of NRSA (National Remote Sensing Agency), Hyderabad. Despite the inaccessibility of hilly tracts and lack of transport, the Department has managed to complete aerial survey of 190 villages of Narayanpur district, 39 villages of Bijapur, 8 villages of Dantewada district, and also Abujhmad area, spread over 5,852 sq km, officials stated
It has also received the aerial maps of aforementioned villages. All the necessary actions in the context were under the supervision of Narayanpur District Collector, they stated. Moreover, in view of the requirement of Nazul survey of land in urban areas of the State, the Revenue Department has identified ten cities of the State for aerial survey of Nazul land.
The cities are Raipur, Durg, Bhilai, Rajnandgaon, Ambikapur, Raigarh, Bilaspur, Dhamtari, Jagdalpur and Korba. The Chhattisgarh Revenue Department is also in the process of establishing modern record rooms at Tehsil level to preserve all the old records in such offices. A budget provision of Rs10 crore had been made for financial year 2015-16 for setting up the record rooms, officials stated.
Moreover, making optimum use of Information Technology and Geographical Information System (GIS), the Chhattisgarh Government has already digitized records of more than 54 lakh land owners of all the 146 tehsils of the State. The details of the land records digitisation include Khasra and B-1 records. The digitisation of revenue records and maps of 20000 villages of the State has also been completed.
In compliance of the announcement made by the Chief Minister Raman Singh, the copy of land records of all the land record holders of the State is now also provided online, officials stated. According to Revenue Department officials, the computerised copies of land records have already been provided to 1,94,6000 land records holders in different districts as per their demands last year.
The State Government has sanctioned 800 posts of Patwaris in the Budget of the current financial year 2014-15 in order to provide land records to the people at the earliest. Moreover, as many as 1.20 crore pages of about 2.5 lakh files of 17 departments located at the Chhattisgarh State Secretariat have been fully scanned and uploaded online last year.
The ‘Digital Secretariat’ of the Chhattisgarh Government has started functioning and thereby, now, has completely eliminated the manual processes in these departments. The application of the project is being hosted from the State Data Centre in Raipur. In January this year, the Central Government had conferred a national award on Chhattisgarh for its Geographical Information System (GIS).
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel had conferred National E-Governance Award-Gold on Chhattisgarh’s GIS system under the category ‘Innovative use of GIS Technology in e-Governance, at the National e-Governance Workshop organized by Central Government in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Chhattisgarh Government’s Principal Secretary for Information Technology Aman Kumar Singh had received the award from Gujarat Chief Minister. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has congratulated the winners including Chhattisgarh through twitter.
