Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Saturday launched the cadastral maps online at Project Building secretariat. On the occasion, Ramesh said that the mapping would facilitate numerous uses for public including transparency in land transactions, easy availability of bank loans to land owners, generation of other necessary documents. He stressed on use of modern technology through computerization for digitization of land records and to also make mutation of land on-line. The lead programme under this plan has been named ‘Vasudha’.
Chief Secretary, RS Sharma on the occasion said that cadastral mapping was a combination of textual and graphical maps. This provided for transparency and help completing the survey work of all the villages of the state in a time-bound manner, he added. He said that anyone could access the contents on the website of Department of Revenue & land Reforms through the jharkhand.gov.in.
Principal Secretary, Revenue and land reforms department, J.B.Tubid said that the department has taken up this programme as a pilot project. He presented to the Union Minister the major issues of this project. The Minister has agreed for holding a meeting at Delhi to resolve the issues.
Meanwhile, Ramesh also mentioned about the initiative of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) to build a 1000 bedded hospital in and around Ranchi city. Chief Secretary agreed to provide a portion of land that is being acquired for Knowledge city near Khunti.
After the Principal Secretary, Road Construction Department talked about several difficulties concerning maintenance of existing roads and also construction of new roads, the Union Minister directed the NHAI to meet the requirements and settle the matter and resolve the subjects of concern.