Revenue Deptt, CCOST to initiate resurvey of cadastral maps

 

 

 

In a bid to minimise the scope of land and property disputes in the state, Revenue Department, Government of Chhattisgarh in collaboration with Chhattisgarh Council of Science and Technology (CCOST) is going to initiate resurvey of cadastral maps under Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) in entire Chhattisgarh this year. First time, accurate cadastral maps will be prepared on geo-spatial domain for the entire state.

In geo-spatial domain, the accurate cadastral maps in all respects are not available at present. On such a huge scale, the Revenue Department will prepare accurate digital cadastral maps first time.

A senior officer on condition of anonymity told ‘The Hitavada’ that the Revenue Department has included the project in its departmental budget for 2020-21. The project is being included in the state budget. If the project is approved in the state budget, the project will be implemented in the entire state. Around Rs 400 crore would be expensed on the project, the officer added. Speaking to ‘The Hitavada,’

a scientist of the CCOST confirmed that a proposal for the DILRMP has been submitted to Revenue Department. According to the project, the digital cadastral maps will be prepared on 1:4000

scale. The Revenue Department has accepted

the proposal.

The project will be helpful to minimise land and property disputes. The integrated programme emphasises on modernising management of land records, minimising scope of land and property disputes, enhancing transparency in the maintenance of land records system, and thereby facilitating towards guaranteed conclusive titles to immovable properties in the state.

The major components of the programme are computerisation of all land records including mutations, digitisation of maps and integration of textual and spatial data, survey or re-survey and up-dation of all survey and settlement records including creation of original cadastral records wherever necessary, computerisation of registration and its integration with land records maintenance system, development of core Geospatial Information System (GIS) and capacity building.

The important component of the proposal is to establish network of ground control points for the whole of the state which shall become a ‘long term reference’ not only for the user departments like Land records, agriculture, forest, mining but also for the farmers of the state, and shall create an enabling environment to convert the existing cadastral database to geo-referenced 1:4000 scale digital maps in World Geodetic System 84 (WGS84) datum which is adopted nationally.

To rectify the existing cadastral system of mapping under the National Land Records Modernisation Programme (NLRMP), the CCOST proposes to launch a state wide cadastral re-survey and modernisation of land records as a big programme in three phases. The first and most significant phase required is to establish Network of Ground Control Points (GCP), herein after referred as GCPs at 16km x 16 km and 4km x 4 km spatial grids for the entire state. For the geographic span of Chhattisgarh, as primary (16km x 16km) and secondary ground control points (4km x 4km), it is estimated that a total of 731 Primary GCP’s and 7705 Secondary GCP’s shall be required. To achieve better accuracy at each cadastral plot level Tertiary Control Points at each 1 km x 1 km grid size would also be required which counts to about 3 in each village. The project has already implemented in several states like Odisha, Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.