Once again, Chandigarh administration tries to digitise estate records, ET RealEstate
CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh administration is set to take up the digitisation of property records of the UT estate office. Also in the works is the creation of a digital platform for live tracking of files by both the officials and the allottees.
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been asked to initiate the process of full digitisation of the estate office records. At least three attempts were made by the estate office at digitising records in 2005, 2011, and 2021, but none could achieve full digitisation.
“A sizeable portion of the records was digitised in earlier attempts, but the process couldn’t be completed because of a number of reasons. Now, the aim is to fully digitise the records. For this, a firm will be hired to scan the requisite documents. These will be catalogued, and it will be ensured that no mistakes are made in the digitisation of the records,” said a UT official.
The push for the digitisation of the land records has come from the top echelons of the Chandigarh administration, with both the UT chief secretary and secretary, estates, monitoring the progress of it for better service delivery.
“Following the digitisation of the records, the estate office also plans to roll out the live tracking of the files and allottee applications through a digital platform. It can be done on the estate office site and a mobile application,” said the official, adding, “Live tracking will bring transparency, ensure better monitoring of the estate office work by the top UT officials and help allottees get speedy service. ”
In the previous digitisation attempt, some of the information about property records, such as the resumption of properties, was incorrectly uploaded. This has been rectified.
Also, to address the issue of correcting the status of properties that were once resumed but later restored through various court orders, an SOP was framed, and corrections of many such entries were made by the estate office.
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