Srinagar, May 28 -- The digitization of land records across Jammu & Kashmir has been hailed as a watershed moment in governance. Fragile paper jamabandis, once tucked away in patwar khanas, are now part of an online public database promising transparency, accessibility, and justice.
But behind this major achievement lies a growing, largely unnoticed crisis: the unresolved mess of survey numbers, overlapping family shares, and mismatches between digital records and ground realities.
Despite digitizing millions of land records, the government has yet to settle a crucial layer of detail-the actual possession and sub-division of land parcels, especially within families. The cost of this omission is being borne silently by thousands of rural h...