Context: Recently, Ministry of Union Housing and Urban Affairs has recently launched the ‘e-Dharti Geo Portal’ which will integrate legacy drawings such as maps and lease plans in the management information system.

• It will also make the system Geographic Information System enabled, GIS enabled.

Key Points

• The land & development office (L&DO) is dealing with around 60,000 properties that are commercial, residential, industrial as well as institutional.
• The minister urged all organisations to undertake efforts to identify more activities that need to be automated and made free of human interface.
• The move will integrate legacy drawings such as maps and lease plans in the management information system (MIS), namely e-Dharti, and make it GIS enabled.
• The certificate to be offered includes property details like land type, property type, date of allotment, property status, sub-type, plot area, date of execution of lease deed, property address, details about present lessee and litigation status among others.

Geographic information system

• It is a computerized system that captures, stores, checks and displays data related to the position of the earth. The system shows different details of data such as buildings streets and vegetation.
• The Government of India has been taking several measures to map the land area in the country.

Property certificate

• It is usually created during purchase of a property. The property certificate provides information about the property to the purchaser and the lessee.
• This information about the property certificate can now be accessed by paying a nominal fee of thousand rupees.