In a first, South-West Delhi land records go online

Updated At : 06:08 AM Apr 30, 2015 IST

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 29

In an initiative claimed to be the first of its kind in the Capital, the land records of South-West district have been digitised and made available online in the public domain, making it possible for citizens to download digitally signed copies of their land documents from Internet.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has decided to replicate the project in all districts within the next six months.

Land records of more than 78,000 property owners comprising over 1.80 lakh khasras are now available on the website — http:// dlrc.delhigovt.nic.in/.

The records have been uploaded in the draft mode till May 25. Any errors that might crept in due to computerisation may be brought to the notice of the authorities for correction till then.

This initiative will be a great boon to citizens in terms of authenticity as the legal status of the ownership of a property can be checked by any prospective buyer from the website, thus safeguarding him against transactions by unscrupulous elements. It will allow citizens to have round-the-clock access to their record of rights and bring in enhanced transparency. Officials said it would save time as earlier it would take three to four weeks. Citizens would no longer have to come to the patwari’s office for getting their record of rights.

District Magistrate, South-West, Ankur Garg said any such instances which were brought to the notice, if found correct, should be corrected immediately by revenue staff. However, errors if any, which were not due to the process of computerisation but existed otherwise in manual records too, should be corrected after following the due process of law.

Garg appealed to the citizens to visit the website and give their valuable suggestions and feedback to dcsw@nic.in.

He said the feedback would help improve the accuracy of the database further, thereby leading to a neat and clean regime of property records in the district.

Garg said an online mutation module had also been developed and all mutations were processed through this module exclusively so that the database remained updated at all times. As the records had been computerised in Devnagari script, the facility of a virtual Hindi keyboard had also been provided on the website to enable easy search based on name.

In a first, South-West Delhi land records go online

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