- SVAMITVA card is designed as a Property Card, an authoritative source reflective of record of ownership/ possession.
- The unique number like Aadhar will help in auto-update of registration & mutation
- ULPIN will facilitate Direct Benefit Transfer to farmers/landowners, availing loan, disaster relief: LG
JAMMU, OCT 2: In a development that could create new political ripples in J&K, Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Giriraj Singh and Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today e-launched Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) and Survey of Villages Abadi and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas (SVAMITVA), for Jammu and Kashmir’s land and property owners on Saturday.
While launching the schemes in Srinagar on Saturday, the Lt Governor remarked that “the technology based schemes will change the rural landscape in terms of quick and convenient access to the land owners, especially those living in abadi-deh.”
“The initiatives will also help eliminate corruption and hence, it is another step towards people-friendly, transparent, corruption-free governance, said the Lt Governor. Pertinently, J&K is the 13th State/UT in the country to implement ULPIN.
Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Giriraj Singh said that the “initiatives launched today are reflective of the central government’s working on the principles of ease of doing compliance and transparency.”
ULPIN is designed to be a single, authoritative source of information on any parcel of land or property to facilitate the Direct Benefit Transfer to the accounts of farmers/landowners, availing loan, disaster relief etc. The unique parcel number like Aadhar will help in auto-update of registration & mutation. Further integration of ULPIN with various services will greatly facilitate the land/property owners.
Similarly, SVAMITVA will be like a property card with legal sanctity, an authoritative source reflective of record of ownership/possession. The schemes, encompassing the length and breadth of J&K, will involve the use of modern technology for surveys, extraction of data and final compilation of the records for public use.
The schemes will be completed within a year.
Those present on the occasion included Farooq Khan, Advisor to Lt Governor; Ajay Tirkey, Secretary Department of Land Resources, GoI; Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary; Shaleen Kabra, Principal Secretary Revenue and Home department; Bipul Pathak, Principal Secretary Department of Rural Development; HS Meena, Additional Secretary DoLR; Ms. Sarita Chauhan, Commissioner Secretary, Department of Labour and Employment; Yasha Mudgal, Secretary Cooperatives; Dr. Raghav Langer, Divisional Commissioner Jammu; Amit Kumar, Secretary IT; Deputy Commissioners, and senior officers from GoI and various departments of the UT.
Chairpersons DDC, PRIs representatives, besides others also took part in the launching ceremony through virtual mode.
