Jammu District Magistrate reviews digitisation of jamabandis

Ganderbal, January 22

Jammu District Magistrate Sachin Kumar Vaishya reviewed the status of digitisation of jamabandis, the textual records of land ownership, at a meeting with officers of the Revenue Department. The meeting focussed on the procedure being followed for finalising, freezing and digitising the jamabandis of all villages in the district.

The meeting was apprised that updated jamabandis of all villages would be made public January 23 onwards in a phased manner. The DM also encouraged the officers to give wide publicity to the digitised jamabandis and the benefits they would bring to the people. It was informed that a total of 908 jamabandis have been digitised with thorough quality checks.

The DM directed the tehsildars to conduct field visits, exercise their magisterial powers optimally and resolve the public grievances in a timely manner. The meeting was attended by ADC Ansuya Jamwal, ADC Shishir Gupta, ACR Piyush Dhotra, SDMs, tehsildars and other officers of the Revenue Department.