02/04/2021 - Government Policies

KEY POINTS

·        For a significant section of the rural poor, land is both an asset and a source of livelihood. Many informal jobs in the urban centres were lost as the economy was hit by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

·        The government of India’s Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DI-LRMP) scheme is the most recent effort in this regard.

·        The dismal state of land records is due to the failure of the Indian administration to evolve from British-era land policies.

·        Though DI-LRMP provides a common framework for reporting the progress of land record management by states/UTs, the heterogeneous nature of regulations/guidelines for land record management in India makes the progress non-uniform.

·        NCAER made a pioneering effort in this direction by launching NCAER Land Records and Services Index (N-LRSI) in 2020.

·        The index assesses states’ performance on two broad dimensions digitisation and quality of land records.

·        Despite the pandemic, states/UTs made rigorous efforts over the course of a year to make improvements in various parameters of the index.

·        These improvements are clearly captured in the N-LRSI 2021 findings Bihar’s jump from the 23rd to 8th position in the index by making substantial progress in the digitisation of maps, textual records and registration process.

·        The N-LRSI design entails a sub-component of updating of ownership), which gauges the extent of integration between registration and textual records swiftness of the process of updating ownership known as mutation.

·        The information obtained from all the state/UT sources in this regard revealed that no state/UT has the provision for online mutation on the same day as the registration.

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