The Chhattisgarh Revenue Department would establish 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. 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 digitization include Khasra and B-1 records. The digitization 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 computerized 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.