Go Online and Scan Statewide Records before Buying Land

These days, one can access land records in the state with one click. The Maharashtra government has scanned up to 34 crore records and these will be available online soon under the land record digitization initiative. According to the officials, the purpose of it is to enable checking land records, area, and name of the owner, pending dues, if any, so purchase and sale of land goes easier and smoothly in the state.

During his joint address to legislators of both Houses on the first budget session day of Maharashtra assembly, Governor C Vidyasagar Rao has announced this. He added, “The cadastral maps (including the value, extent, and ownership of land, particularly for taxation) of six districts of Aurangabad, Raigad, Nashik, Amravati, and Nagpur are being digitized in the first phase.” It is a part of Digital India Land Records Modernization Program by central government. Record rooms will be modernized in this project as well.

According to the officials, the project was scheduled to be finished last year but the pace of verification and scanning of papers slowed due to errors on large scale in the system. Over the past few months, the pace has slowed down and most documents are yet to be scanned. It takes some time for verification and uploading them online. In his speech, the governor spoke about several key infrastructure projects that state government was taking in various cities of the state. According to him, over Rs. 1 lakh crores are to be invested in metro rail projects across Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune.

To deal with the road traffic and decongest it, the state government is trying to focus on water transport and government will also develop the first marina in the state at Belapur on Panvel creek. Berthing facilities for up to 30 boats will be started in the first phase of project.

He also discussed the ease in doing business taken by the government led by BJP and other policies it has undertaken to make a 1-trillion dollar economy. Land survey is known to be a tedious process and it may take longer time and digitization may be finished soon.