📘 Q.6 IAS Prelims 2024 — Economy (Land Governance | Digital Public Infrastructure)
🧷 Authentic Classroom Explanation by IAS Monk
📌 The Question:
With reference to the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, consider the following statements:
- To implement the scheme, the Central Government provides 100% funding.
- Under the Scheme, Cadastral Maps are digitized.
- An initiative has been undertaken to transliterate the Records of Rights from local language to any of the languages recognized by the Constitution of India.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
✅ Correct Answer: (d) 1, 2 and 3
🧠 Curiosity Raiser
Can land disputes vanish if maps, ownership records, and languages themselves go digital?
📘 Enrichment Notes (Prelims-Ready | Governance + Economy)
🔹 Funding Pattern
- Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP)
- Earlier known as National Land Records Modernisation Programme (NLRMP)
- Converted into a Central Sector Scheme from 1 April 2016
- 👉 100% funding by the Central Government
✅ Statement 1 is correct
🔹 Core Components of DILRMP
The programme aims to build a modern, transparent, and integrated land record system through:
- Computerisation of land records
- Digitisation of cadastral (survey) maps
- Computerisation of Registration Offices
- Integration of Sub-Registrar Offices (SROs) with land records
✅ Statement 2 is correct
🔹 Language & Accessibility Reform
To overcome linguistic barriers in land governance:
- Government has launched transliteration of Records of Rights (RoR)
- From local languages to any of the 22 Schedule VIII languages
- Implemented with technical support from C-DAC, Pune
This ensures:
- Inter-state usability
- Migrant access
- Legal clarity
✅ Statement 3 is correct
🔑 Prelims Value Addition
- ULPIN (Bhu-Aadhaar):
- 14-digit alphanumeric ID for each land parcel
- Based on geo-coordinates
- Complies with ECCMA and OGC standards
🧘♂️ IAS Monk Whisper
When land speaks a common digital language, disputes fall silent.