Punjab?s ambitious project of digitalisation of land records being implemented under public-private partnership paradigm and under Build, Operate, Own and Transfer (BOOT) basis has gathered pace.
By the end of this year, there will be online access to the land records which will benefit NRI population of the state. Besides, all 153 tehsils of the state would be computerised and the project will cost Rs 115 crore.
The project of land records is being implemented through Punjab Land Records Society. The BOOT operators CMC Limited are handling the work for Sangrur and Barnala while other districts are being looked after by CMS private Limited. These operators are supposed to implement data entry and validations of all revenue records. Operation and maintenance of service centres (Fard Kendras) and registration of documents will also be done.
Currently, registration of deeds is being done by using the Prism software at all 153 Tehsils and a pilot project of registration is already implemented on BOOT at Sangrur and Barnala.
Talking to FE, Anurag Verma, secretary, Revenue department of Punjab said, ?There are few shortcomings in the software and we have decided to get new software developed from Microsoft. This will be integrated with land records, deed writers, stamp duty and Geographic Information Systems ( GIS) module.