Karnal patwaris go hi-tech with GPS-enabled tabs

Parveen Arora

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Tribune News Service

Karnal, October 30

Basta of patwaris of the district Revenue Department is going to be a thing of the past as they are becoming hi-tech with GPS-enabled tabs.

The process to distribute tabs has been started by the district administration, with the help of which patwaris will conduct khasra girdawari (crop inspection) twice a year. The authorities claimed that the move would help in updating an actual picture of the revenue record. Besides, it will also ensure transparency and anyone can access the information online.

It will also save the time of patwaris as earlier they had to conduct girdawari and then send a report after coming to office. But now they would just have to upload a picture of the land on the portal.

As many as 125 tabs have been purchased at a cost of Rs 15.50 lakh and these are being distributed among the patwaris through tehsildars.

Gaurav Kumar, SDM Karnal, said “All patwaris have been trained to upload the picture on the portal of the Revenue Department for e-girdwari initiative of the state government.”

The initiative has been taken to check the absence of patwaris from the fields. They were sending reports about girdawari on their own without on-ground survey.

Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav said this step would check absenteeism. “A patwari has to upload picture with longitude and latitude information of the site after conducting khasra girdawari. It will ensure their presence on the ground and we will get a real picture of the revenue record,” he said.

This would also help the administration in verifying the information of crops under ‘Meri Fasal, Mera Byora’ portal. Besides, it would help in settling claims of farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, he added.