Digitisation of British-era land records on war footing in Karnal
Tribune News Service
Karnal, August 4
To speed up the digitisation of revenue record of the British era, the district administration has fixed a deadline of September 15.
Around 80 lakh out of two crore pages are yet to be scanned. Indri SDM Sumit Sihag and District Revenue Officer Shyam Lal have been assigned the duty to supervise the process for speedy digitisation.
For posterity
The land of the old record room has been transferred to Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College. The British-era record has been shifted to the mini-secretariat. The digitisation is on a war footing.
These directions were given by Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav after reviewing the progress of scanning the record and after a visit to the new record room.
“For the expansion of the Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College (KCGMC), the land of old record room has been transferred to the college. The whole record of the British era has been shifted to the new record room at the second floor of the mini-secretariat. The process of digitilisation is going on a war footing,” said Yadav, adding 50 employees have been assigned the task of scanning the record and maps.
Besides, the bar coding is also being done of the scanned record by keeping them in steel boxes so that it could be identified easily, the DC said. The old record would be available at the click of a mouse.
The revenue record of Karnal district between 1865 and 1964, of Panipat (1865-1959), Kurukshetra (1865-1956) and Kaithal (1865-1957) and the court record of Karnal district between 1905 and March 31, 1987 were lying with the old record room. These have been shifted to new record room.
The building of old record room will be demolished by August 15.
