Over 68 Lakh Land Records Digitised as CS Orders Faster Rollout Across Jammu Kashmir | Kashmir Life

SRINAGAR: More than 68 lakh land records have been digitised across Jammu and Kashmir, with Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo on Tuesday directing revenue officials to expedite the rollout of the digitisation programme by clearing pending backlog mutations, freezing Jamabandis and ensuring integration of records with welfare and credit access platforms.

Chairing a review of the land records modernisation programme, Dulloo directed Tehsildars to certify that no backlog mutations remain pending in their jurisdictions and ordered phased freezing of Jamabandis by Tehsildars, Sub-Divisional Magistrates and Deputy Commissioners to place authenticated records in the public domain for citizen access.

He directed the designation of Prabhari Officers, in consultation with the Financial Commissioner (Revenue), to oversee district-level correction and validation of records and ensure timely completion of pending targets.

The Chief Secretary also ordered immediate implementation of AgriStack components in areas where digitisation has been completed and directed integration of digitised land records with the Reserve Bank of India’s Unified Lending Interface (ULI) to facilitate institutional credit access for farmers.

Dulloo asked the Settlement Commissioner to lead capacity-building programmes for field staff and directed the Revenue Department to transition fully to digital crop surveys during the upcoming agricultural seasons.

He further instructed officials to evolve a mechanism to trace missing Mussavis and other revenue records and initiate action against those found responsible for tampering or disappearance of records.

Officials informed the meeting that all 20 districts and 206 tehsils have been brought under the digitisation programme, while nearly 95 per cent of the target for backlog mutations has been achieved, with more than 6.47 lakh mutations completed so far.

The meeting was informed that over 14.49 lakh grievances related to land records have been received to date, of which more than 14.27 lakh non-quasi judicial grievances have been resolved.

Officials said more than 25 lakh Unique Land Parcel Identification Numbers (ULPINs) have been generated between March and May 2026, extending coverage to thousands of villages across Jammu and Kashmir.

Progress under the SVAMITVA scheme was also reviewed, with officials stating that drone surveys and GIS-based mapping of rural abadi areas are underway and property cards are being distributed in phases.

The directions were issued during a review meeting attended by Financial Commissioner (Revenue) Shaleen Kabra, Secretary Revenue, Divisional Commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir, Commissioner Survey and Land Records, Inspector General Registration, State Informatics Officer of NIC and other senior officials, while Deputy Commissioners participated through video conferencing.

During the meeting, Kabra directed Deputy Commissioners to undertake rectification of records strictly under Section 32 of the Land Revenue Act and stressed tracing the custody trail of missing records for legal action.

A presentation by the Revenue Department reviewed progress on the JK Zameen Sudhar Portal, digitisation of cadastral maps, BhuNaksha integration, farmer registry creation and digital crop survey implementation under the AgriStack framework. Dulloo directed Deputy Commissioners to personally monitor freezing of Jamabandis, disposal of grievances and verification of digitised records within prescribed timelines.