Unique Land Parcel Identification Number,Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP),Integrated Land Information Management System (ILIMS), ULPIN, Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS)

Unique Land Parcel Identification Number

Context

• The Centre plans to issue a 14-digit identification number to every plot of land in the country within a year’s time.
• It will subsequently integrate its land records database with revenue court records and bank records, as well as Aadhaar numbers on a voluntary basis, according to a Parliamentary standing committee report submitted to the Lok Sabha last week.

More about it About

• The Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) scheme has been launched in ten States this year and will be rolled out across the country by March 2022, the Department of Land Resources told the Standing Committee on Rural Development.
• Being described as “the Aadhaar for land", it is a number that would uniquely identify every surveyed parcel of land and prevent land fraud, especially in the hinterlands of rural India, where land records are outdated and often disputed.
• The identification will be based on the longitude and latitude coordinates of the land parcel, and is dependent on detailed surveys and geo-referenced cadastral maps.
• This is the next step in the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), which began in 2008.
• Proper land statistics and land accounting through ULPIN will help develop land banks and lead towards Integrated Land Information Management System (ILIMS).

What are the Benefits?

• The benefits of ULPIN are multitudinous. The single source of information can authenticate the ownership and in turn it can end the dubious ownership.
• It will help identify the government lands easily and protect land from shabby land transaction.
• Ensures uniqueness in all transactions and keep the land records always up-to-date.
• A link of all property transactions will get established.
• Sharing of land records data across departments, financial institutions and all stakeholders.

Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme

• It is a Central Sector scheme that has been extended up to 2020-21 at a total cost of Rs. 950 crores.
• The Department of Land Resources (Ministry of Rural development) has proposed a further extension to 2023-24, to complete its original targets as well as expand its ambit with a slew of new schemes.
• It attempts to build upon the commonalities that exist in the arena of land records in various States to develop an appropriate Integrated Land Information Management System (ILIMS) across the country, on which different States can also add State-specific needs as they may deem relevant and appropriate.
• ILIMS: The system will contain information on parcel ownership, land use, taxation, location boundaries, land value, encumbrances and many more.
• New initiatives have been taken under the program like the National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS), ULPIN, linking of revenue court to land records, integration of consent based Aadhar numbers with land records etc.
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