Context: Recently, Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj has held a workshop on Digital India Land Record Modernization Programme (DILRMP).

• The ministry also launched National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS) portal and Dashboard.

Unique Land Parcel Identification Numbers

• ULPIN is a 14-digit Alpha–Numeric Unique ID for each land parcel.
• It is like the Aadhaar Number of land parcels.
• In this, a unique ID based on Geo-coordinates of the parcels is generated and assigned to the plots.
• It will share the computerized digital land record data among different States/Sectors and provides a uniform system of assigning a unique ID to the land parcel across the country.

Significance

• The system will help in reducing land disputes in the country.
• It will enhance the service deliveries to the citizens.
• Information from ULPIN will function as inputs to the schemes of the other sectors like Agriculture, Finance Disaster Management etc.

What is Digital India Land Record Modernisation programme?

• Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP) was established in 2008 by Government of India.

Objectives

• To usher in a system of updated land records, automated and automatic mutation.
• Integration between textual and spatial records, inter-connectivity between revenue and registration.
• To replace the present deeds registration.

Components of the Scheme

• Computerization of land record
• Survey/re-survey
• Computerization of Registration.

Benefits to Citizens

• Real-time land ownership records will be available to the citizen.
• Property owners will have free access to their records without any compromise regarding confidentiality of the information.
• Free accessibility to the records will reduce interface between the citizen and the Government functionaries, thereby reducing rent seeking.
• Public-private partnership (PPP) mode of service delivery will reduce citizen interface with Govt.
• Abolition of stamp papers, payment of stamp duty and registration fees through banks, etc. will reduce interface with the Registration machinery.
• With use of IT inter linkages; the time for obtaining Rate of Return will be reduced.

About National Generic Document Registration System

• NGDRS is a project initiated by the Government of India.
• It is a common, application developed for registration departments across the country.

Objectives

• To act as One Nation One Software for registration of properties and document across the country.
• Citizen empowerment by enabling property valuation and online document submission.
• A single platform of all the stakeholders in registration process.

Features

• Facility for online document entry for citizens.
• Role based access to citizens and department users.
• E KYC – UID based authentication with the help of biometric at the time of admission.
• Linking with land records system.
• Storage of copy of registered documents using scanning technology.
• Unicode based local language support.