Digitization of land records will improve GDP: Minister for Rural Development
Digitization of land records and registration is expected to improve the country’s GDP by about 1.5 percent, Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh said on Thursday.
He made these remarks at the opening of the two-day Bhumi Samvaad on ‘Sharing Best Practices in Modernization of Land Management’.
While addressing officials from across the country at the conference, Singh emphasized that the saturation of the digitalization process of land records and registration will help reduce the huge pendency of cases related to land disputes.
It will also help improve the country’s position in terms of ease of doing business,” he said.
“The digitalization of land records and registration is expected to improve the country’s GDP by about 1.5 percent,” he said.
Stressing the importance of emerging technologies such as blockchain and CORS in the modernization process of land management, he said this will go a long way in achieving the government’s objectives under ‘Gatishakti’.
He also highlighted the importance of new initiatives by the government to provide country data in multiple languages for ease of doing business.
Minister of State for Steel and Rural Development Faggan Singh Kulaste said that all benefits of schemes should reach the citizens under the transparent governance model proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He also emphasized that the digitalization process of land records and registration will help reduce the huge pendency of cases related to land disputes.
Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti urged states to hold regular district-level dialogues to understand land-related issues faced by farmers and how they can improve their access to credit through digitalization of land data and reducing land-related disputes.
Minister of State for Panchayati Raj Kapil Moreshwar Patil said that modernization of land administration will be a major contribution of this department in achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat.
The two-day conference will bring together a diverse group of speakers and participants from different stakeholder groups, including the central and state governments and institutions.
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First print: February 9, 2024 | 7:03 am IST