e-girdawari from current kharif season

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 19

Taking a step further in the direction of digitisation, the Haryana government has ordered e-girdawari of crops on electronic tablets from the current kharif season.

This will replace the traditional method of girdawari under which patwaris prepared records of crops based on khijra (a map drawn on a piece of cloth) after visiting the fields.

Girdawari is a document, in which the patwari enters the name of owner, name of cultivator, land/khasra number, area, kind of land, cultivated and non cultivated area, source of irrigation, name of crop and its conditions, revenue and rate of revenue etc, minimum twice in a year.

“Trials have already been conducted and training provided to patwaris and other field officials regarding the use of electronic tablets,” said Fatehabad Deputy Commissioner Dr Hardeep Singh, who addressed a meeting of tehsildars of the district on Thursday to streamline the process of e-gardawari in his district.