CM Modi releases the Resurvey Manual
Shri. Narendra
Modi, Hon'ble Chief Minister releases the Resurvey Manual prepared y the
Revenue Department
Land is
becoming a scarce commodity. Preservation of this valuable asset and effective
management strategies assume greater importance. Our foresighted predecessors
have gifted us a system for maintenance of revenue records. In the era of fast
urbanization and industrialization, society at large is having high
expectations from the Revenue Department on the land management related issues.
It is also necessary to meet the demand for government land along with
far-sighted planning of its future requirements. Hence, it is inevitable to
administer matters of land management with high degree of meticulousness and
ensure accuracy in maintenance of records as well. A pre-requisite of
modernization of land records is to capture in-situ real time land related data
with the field survey of land in possession and
cultivated by farmers.
The
original survey for the areas under present State of Gujarat had been carried out from 1880-1915.
The technology used for the survey was chain and cross staff. The measurements
for each field were written on a paper which is known as the Tippan for that
particular parcel of land. The area based on the measurements taken for the
land parcel was calculated manually by using a ready reckoner. The survey
number, its area, the occupant of this parcel and various other characteristics
of this land parcel were tabulated in a
land record known as Akar Bandh. The sum total of the area of all survey number
in a village not only gave the total area of the village, but also land area
under various categories such as the cultivated land, the cultivable land, the
uncultivable waste land, land under roads and other public purposes. What was
lacking was the accuracy with regard to the measurements and the survey of
land which was done with the help
of technology available at that time which had its own limitations.
As per the
provisions of the Gujarat Land Revenue Code, it is required to carry out
resurvey at an interval of 30 years to recalculate assessment on agriculture
land. Since the original survey, the State Government had not revised the
revenue to be levied on agriculture land. Looking to the negligible amount of
land revenue and to the benefit of land
holders Gujarat Government has suspended the collection of land revenue since
the year 1997.
Under
National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP), the State is playing
leading role in carrying out resurvey of land and it is planned to complete
resurvey in entire State by year 2015 using sophisticated and latest land
survey technologies like DGPS and ETS and G.I.S. based spatial data processing
software (IGIS software). Digitized records will be generated by 100% survey of
all agriculture land. This work is under progress and is being carried out by
national level expert survey agencies under the direct supervision and guidance
of the Revenue Department.
In
preparation of this manual, the experience of the field level functionaries and
officers involved in the resurvey has been considered as a vital component
since the programme is complex and technology driven.
The ground survey has been completed
in 2742 villages out of 5297 villages of 7 districts and newly finalized
revenue records of 126 villages have been promulgated by the concerned Prant
Offices. GIS-ready digitized village maps, taluka maps and District maps are
created integrating new RoR data.
Record of
Rights is considered as presumptive record. There is growing awareness among
the various Government Departments about
the utility of the GIS ready maps for the development planning. These maps will
serve the purpose. New land record will
be prepared after surveying land as per actual possession of the holder. The
State Government has taken a historic decision to alter the century old iconic
format of Record of Right i.e. Village Form No. 7/12, in two separate formats.
After resurvey, the new Village Form No. 7 will be provided to holder with Land
Parcel Map (LPM) showing details of measurement and dimensions with allied
details. With these three important components of the Revenue Department i.e.
Survey, Record of Rights and Registration can be integrated and immediate
consequent correction in spatial data will be possible in case of mutation. The
Department has initiated e-Jamin project under which this process will be
easily accommodated and maintained.
The experiences of field level functionaries
and officers of the Department involved in resurvey and reconstruction of the
Revenue Records have been used to make the process simple in this high-tech
programme. Through this publication, the department aims to provide the basic orientation to all the major
stake-holders about various process and procedures related to land and its
management and other important issues dealt by the Revenue and Survey Officers.
At this occasion
Smt. Anandiben Patel, Hon'ble Revenue Minister, Shri. C.L.Meena, Principal
Secretary, Revenue Department, Shri. M.V.Joshi, Settlement Commissioner &
Director of Land Records, Shri. Hemendra Shah, Additional Secretary and Shri. Himanshu Dalwadi of the Settlement
Commissionerate were present. The Manual has been prepared in English and
Gujarati language.
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