NRIs can check their land records online now
The land mutations of Kapurthala and Nawanshahr districts goes online now. The Punjab Land Records Society (PLRS) will run the data of these two districts on a trial basis and then gradually upload the data of other districts. The land records for the two districts would be available in public domain on a government portal www.plrs.org.in
Being NRI centric districts, Kapurthala and Nawanshahr have been selected for the trial run.
“A large number of people from these pockets reside abroad and need to keep a track of their landholdings. Based on the feedback from these people, the database of other districts would also be uploaded,” said Anurag Verma, former secretary, Revenue, Government of Punjab.
While people would be able to see their land records, copies of the record downloaded from the portal will not be valid for legal purposes.
For a legal document, people would have to visit the Farad Kendra concerned and deposit a fee of Rs 20 per page of the record, with the duty patwari. The record would be made available within 15 to 20 minutes. This is a first of its kind project wherein people can see their land record with a click of mouse.
Meanwhile, at Bathinda, the data of 201 villages out of a total of 292 is being updated under the first phase. Of these, record of 39 villages is in the validation stage, says Sandhya Birla, district in-charge, PLRS.
“The records of sub-tehsil Sangat, Maur and four villages of Bhagta have already been validated,” she added.
Bathinda district has three tehsils and four sub-tehsils. All these have Farad Kendras running from their own buildings while that of Bathinda tehsil is operating from a makeshift office.
Started in July 2007, the PLRS, Bathinda, has faced many odds in preparing the database. Sources in the PLRS said many records have been running with blunders since 1947. Software was designed in such a way that it picked every anomaly.
Patwaris resisted the move thinking that their role would be completely wiped off, as before the online era, patwaris had the sole prerogative of issuing copies of land records. Over the last five years, things are falling into place, the sources said.
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