26 States and UTs adopts Bhu-Aadhar: DoLR

Subject : Scheme

Concept :

The Department of Land Records (DoLR) has informed that at least 26 States and UTs have adopted the Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) or Bhu-Aadhar and seven more States are conducting a pilot test of the project.
The Indian government is aiming to digitize 100 per cent of land records by 2024.

Bhu-Aadhaar

The Bhu-Aadhaar or ULPIN is a “14-digit alpha-numeric number generated based on the latitude longitude of the vertices of each land parcel”.
It is designated to be the “single, authoritative source of truth of information on any parcel of land or property to provide integrated land services to the citizens as well as all stakeholders”.

Other important initiatives for land records

Bhu-Naksha initiative

The Bhu-Naksha project introduced in 2022 is another project under the Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme implemented in 2016.
The Bhu-Naksha initiative provisions for mapping boundaries and conducting spatial measurement of land to computerize land records and produce digitized maps of a region with parcels of demarcated land.
These maps are editable based on the results of property divisions in G2G (govt to govt) and G2C (govt to citizen) domains.
These parcels of land are then identified by a Bhu-Aadhaar number.

National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS)

As many as 28 States and Union Territories (UTs) in the country have adopted the National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS).
NGDRS is a digital portal for maintaining land records.
The NGDRS is an application developed for allowing people to buy land online via electronic registration of property and documents. The project was initiated by the Department of Land Resources under the aegis of the Ministry of Rural Development.