Digitalization In Achieving Viksit Bharat 2047: A Tool For Transparency And Accountability In Land Governance
- IJLLR Journal
- Aug 8
- 2 min read
P. Sona, Assistant Professor, Gov. Law College, Madurai
ABSTRACT
Digitalization is an inevitable need of the hour and eventually if achieved it will benefit are entire population. By adopting to digitalization, the state and people can move forward productivity, effectively and qualitatively in life without any contradictory legal issues in future with regard to property rights. VIKSIT BHARAT 20472 is the vision of Government of India towards its centenary year which includes transformation with sustainable development goals focused on changing India into stronger economical country by 2047. Digitalization plays a pivotal part in accomplishing this vision, in the meantime one of the challenging zone that practically confronted by Government is digitalization of land records under land governance, which has been initially accomplished through the initiative under Digital India Land Records Modernization Program (DILRMP), which attempt to coordinated the existing land records and related information with individual Aadhaar identification and provide an accurate conclusive data, which also aims at making a centralized, transparent framework over the nations aggravating property disputes , the notion behind empowering online source of land record data is to avoid future conflicts and fraudulent transactions. In India Proprietorship on a land is affirmed based on title and ownership, which is determined based on verification of physical records maintained by different departments and here comes the trouble, when land records of different departments are not correlating with each other and there is no physical verification of possession on a land as per the existing practice, which can lead to unsettling prolonged legal battle to claim on legitimate ownership, To put an conclusion to this India's think tank NITI Aayog has suggested a draft model Act and rules in the year 20203,which is recommended to be adopted by state governments to transform towards Torren system or Conclusive land Titling, under the draft Act the state government has to verify and consolidate the existing land records from various departments and it is duty bound to work on establishment, management and administration of records.
The Draft Act also grant power to the state government to resolve the disputes that arise out of the land records to be heard by the dispute resolution officer and there is an option appeal before the Appellate Tribunal. Ever since the draft Act was suggested by NITI Aayog the Central Government keeps encouraging the state governments and union territories to shift towards the Conclusive land titling method or Torrens system, as an initiative many states commence with digitalization of land records as demanded by DILRMP, the cost incurred for conversion of physical records into digital records is fully sponsored by Central Government, yet there is reluctant approach by few states to adopt to complete digitalization due to pragmatic difficulties in execution, this article focus more on the components involved in the execution of digitalization of land records which the first step towards Conclusive land Titling system and further to analyse whether the digitalization of land records will act as a toll for transparency and accountability in Land Governance.
Keywords: Viksit Bharat, Digitalization, Land Governance, Torrens System, Conclusive Titling
