Srinagar, May 25 -- In a determined stride toward land governance reform, Jammu and Kashmir's Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo has once again demonstrated the power of administrative leadership. By steering a high-level review meeting on the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), he signaled both urgency and long-term commitment to overhauling one of the region's most arcane but foundational systems: the land record regime.
The initiative, part of a nationwide campaign under the Ministry of Rural Development, seeks to digitize Jamabandis (village record-of-rights), vectorize and geo-reference cadastral maps, modernize archival record rooms, and eliminate the endemic backlog of pending land mutations. At the heart of this t...