Lok Sabha Question No. 218 (STARRED), answered on 2024-12-10
Subject: Allocation under DILRMP
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri K Sudhakaran

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF LAND RESOURCES

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. 218 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.12.2024

## Allocation under DILRMP

## *218. Shri K Sudhakaran:

## Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of funds allocated and utilised under Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) since 2016;
- (b) the reasons for the delay in achieving 100% digitisation of land records, despite original target of March 2024;
- (c) the  details  of  safeguards  that  are  in  place  to  prevent  data  manipulation  and  misuse  of personal information in the digitised system;
- (d) whether the Government has any plan to establish a grievance redressal mechanism to address disputes or inaccuracies in digitised land records; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN)

- (a) to (e): A statement is laid on the table of the House.

## Statement referred to in reply to parts (a) to (e) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 218 for answer on 10.12.2024

(a) The details of funds allocated and utilised under Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) since 2016 are as under:

(Rs. in crore)

| Year                      |   Budget Estimate |   Revised Estimate |   Utilization |
|---------------------------|-------------------|--------------------|---------------|
| 2016-17                   |            150    |             140.64 |        138.53 |
| 2017-18                   |            150    |             100    |         97.75 |
| 2018-19                   |            250    |             145    |         68.09 |
| 2019-20                   |            150    |              50    |         43.77 |
| 2020-21                   |            238.65 |             238    |        225    |
| 2021-22                   |            150    |             250    |        250    |
| 2022-23                   |            239.25 |             239.25 |        239.25 |
| 2023-24                   |            195.75 |             125    |        124.39 |
| 2024-25 (till 30.11.2024) |            141    |             141    |         67.53 |
| Total                     |           1664.65 |            1428.89 |       1254.31 |

(b) Government of India has been implementing a comprehensive programme for digitisation and  computerization  of  land  records  and  registration  processes  in  the  country  by  the  name  of Digital  India  Land  Records  Modernization  Programme  with  100%  financial  assistance  from Central Government since 2016-17.  The DILRMP has been extended for a period of five years from  01.04.2021  to  31.03.2026.  As  of  now,  98.50%  digitisation  of  land  records  (Record  of Rights) has been completed in the country except the North Eastern States and Ladakh.

Reasons for delay in achieving 100% digitisation of land records are:

- i. Some areas in the North Eastern States do not have land records like other States due to community ownership issues and Ladakh has started digitisation process in last couple of years.
- ii. Non-Cadastral areas in some States for which there are no land records.
- iii. Cyclical process of Settlement/Consolidation in some States during which digitization is put on hold.
- iv. Delay in finalisation of Record of Rights in urban and peri urban areas in some states as a large number of transactions take place in such areas.

(c) To  prevent data manipulation and misuse of personal information in the digitised system, various measures are in place such as: -

- i. usage of digital signature for database & document signing,
- ii. firewall protection on servers,
- iii. periodic security audit of land records applications,
- iv. usage of encryption for data transfer,
- v. Audit trail to discourage unauthorised data access.

Further, National Informatics Centre (NIC), New Delhi has developed an Artificial Intelligence based  software  application  (AI-Nibrit)  for  masking  of  Aadhaar  Number,  PAN,  QR  Code  and fingerprints  for  typed  documents  irrespective  of  the  language  of  the  document  as  long  as Aadhaar number and PAN are written in English alphabet & numerals, and irrespective of where these personal sensitive information are found in the document. States/UTs have been facilitated to integrate this software in their registration systems.

(d)  &  (e) Land  and  Land  Revenue,  including  maintenance  of  land  records  is  a  State  subject listed at Sl. No.18 & 45 of State List (List II) of the 7 th Schedule of the Constitution wherein land and land revenue is governed by State specific Acts/Rules/Regulations. Resolution of disputes or inaccuracies  in  digitised  land  records  falls  under the  purview  of  States/UTs  and  most  of the States  have  provisions  for  correction  of  inaccuracies  in  land  record  data  in  their  Land Revenue  Acts  and  Manuals.  Similarly,  most  of  the  States  also  have  their  grievance  redressal systems  for  land  related  matters.  In  addition,  Centralized  Public  Grievance  Redress  and Monitoring  System  (CPGRAMS),  grievance  redressal  system  of  Government  of  India  is  also available to citizens.

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