A dedicated capacity building cell will be set up to address the specific requirements of North East states for digitisation of land records in areas under Autonomous District Councils.
With funding by the Central government, the Meghalaya government has directed the three Autonomous District Councils to implement the digitisation of land records in their respective jurisdictions.
According to sources, a dedicated capacity building cell will be set up to address the specific requirements of North East states Councils regarding implementation of the digitisation of land records and that each Autonomous Hill District Council in the North East will be supported by a dedicated team of officers of Department of Land Resources, headed by a Director level officer.
All individual teams will report to the Department of Land Resources Joint Secretary Sonmoni Bora.
On November 24, the Department of Land Resource organised a meeting with officials of North East states and Autonomous District Councils in New Delhi to review progress under Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP).
Secretary, Department of Land Resources, Ajay Tirkey who chaired the review meeting emphasised that providing good governance to people is the prime objective and all concerned need to ensure a commitment to move forward and that the challenge is to steer all our efforts for effective land governance within the overall constitutional framework.
Tirkey also stressed upon the point that states which have achieved saturation in digitisation of land records have moved ahead and leapfrogged in the process of development.
He further underlined that digitisation of land records is a prerequisite for effective implementation of development programmes and schemes including infrastructure development as well as all social sector schemes.
Making it clear that the starting point of good governance across sectors is good land governance, Tirkey further expressed his happiness to note that now all North East states are also moving forward and a number of projects of digitisation of land records have been sanctioned. He assured the support of DOLR in actively associating in the project formulation and ensuring execution of activities in the right manner.
He informed that a dedicated cell will be constituted in the Department of Land Resource to be headed by Director level officer who will report to the Joint Secretary for steering the activities and work on solutions specific to Autonomous Hill District Councils.
The review meeting had presentations on the Action Plan of Autonomous Hill District Councils for implementation of DILRMP in their respective jurisdiction.
The Action Plans discussed in detail included year-wise Action Plan and preparedness like availability and deployment of human resources, capacity building and timeline for completion of the plan.
