The Chhattisgarh Government has started implementation of the scheme launched for providing certified copies of land records of farmers through computers in all 27 districts from September 1.
Revenue Minister Prem Prakash Pandey while holding meeting of Collectors of all districts through video conferencing, reviewed progress of implementation of the scheme.According to informed sources, computerisation of land records and updating of figures uploaded in computers have almost been completed in all districts.
The Minister told Collectors to give only computerised copy of land records like Khasra and B-1 to farmers from September onwards.He directed the Collectors of those districts where naksha (drawings) have not been updated due to some reason, to complete the work at war-footing by end of this month.
During the review, officers said that the State has total 50.82 lakh land account holders. 96 per cent of the total 2.04 crore Khasra numbers and 80 per cent of land drawings have been entered on computers.All the ‘Khasra’ and ‘Kishtbandi Khatauni’ have been computerised in Raipur, Balodabazar-Bhattapara, Dhamtari, Bemetara, Balod, Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur, Mungeli, Korba, Raigarh, Sarguja, Korea, Jashpur and Narayanpur districts.
However, 99.80 per cent computerisation of Khasra and Kishtbandi Khatauni has been done in Kondagaon, 95 per cent in Gariaband, 98 per cent in Durg, 86.25 per cent in Kabirdham, 98 per cent in Janjgir-Champa, 99.28 per cent in Surajpur, 94 per cent in Balarampur-Ramanujganj, 91.30 per cent in Bastar, 98.64 per cent in Dantewada, 93.33 per cent in Sukma, 88.64 per cent in Kanker, 82 per cent in Bijapur and 75.02 per cent in Mahasamund district.
The State has 19,738 revenue villages and 428 forest villages have also been declared as revenue villages. All these villages will get benefit of computerisation of land records.While reviewing distribution of compensation to heavy rain affected people in districts, the minister asked collectors to give away compensation to the left out families within 15 days.Secretary, Revenue, KR Pisda and joint secretaries Chandrakant Uike and P Nihlani were present in the video conferencing.