Lucknow, May 6 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has approved a Rs 121 crore project to digitally modernise land records across the state in a step toward realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' vision, official sources said here on Tuesday.

Sources said that the initiative, sanctioned under the central government's Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), aims to streamline land-related services, eliminate bureaucratic hurdles and ensure greater transparency.

Sources said that the ambitious project will involve the digitisation of key land documents such as maps, khasra and khatauni, making them accessible to citizens with just a click. "A comprehensive digital data bank will be developed to store and ...