The officials and employees of a total of 21 departments in the Mantralaya here now work in a completely digital environment. This was informed in a review meeting for Digital Secretariat Project being implemented by Chhattisgarh Infotech & Biotech Promotion Society (ChiPS).
It was also informed in the meeting that out of 2.33 crore physical records received from 42 departments in the Mantralaya, around 1.22 crore records had been digitised.
The training on Office Automation Application is being imparted to employees of 31 departments, the officials informed. Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand directed officials to ensure training for office automation in the remaining departments latest by next month.
Notably, Chhattisgarh’s 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 digitised 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 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 Department had also 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.