Bhoomi Samman to be presented to 9 Secretaries,68 District Collectors for saturation of Digitization of Land Records

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Delhi. The President of India, Droupadi Murmu, will present the “Bhoomi Samman” 2023 to 9 State Secretaries and 68 District Collectors along with their teams who have excelled in achieving saturation of the core components of the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP)—the core of governance—during a programme at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on Tuesday.
Giriraj Singh, Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, stated that this event is significant for Revenue and Registration functionaries of the state, who would receive the “Bhoomi Samman” for the first time. He further stated that the Bhoomi Samman Scheme is a fine example of centre-State cooperative federalism based on trust and partnership, as the grading system is based on reports and inputs from the states and UTs in the core components of computerization and digitization of land records.
He added that the digitization process of land records and registration will help mitigate the pendency of court cases involving land disputes, cutting down on the GDP loss to the country’s economy due to projects being stalled over litigation involving land disputes. He emphasised that land records-related information can be useful and effective for enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of various services and benefits of the programmes of Central and State Government Departments like Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Chemical and Fertiliser, Public Distribution System (PDS), Panchayati Raj, and Financial Institutions, etc. The effectiveness of the delivery of services to the aforesaid departments, agencies, and Ministries depends upon the uniformity, interoperability, and compatibility of the sharing of land records-related information among different stakeholders.
He informed me that the Department of Land Resources has achieved 94% of its digitization targets pan-India and is resolutely targeting 100% saturation of the core components of digitization of land records in all the Districts by March 31, 2024.

The Prime Minister had envisioned in the Post-Budget Webinar on February 23, 2022, that all public welfare schemes should saturate their components with the objective that no citizen is left behind. In the Council of Ministers’ meeting on July 3, 2023, the Prime Minister reiterated the imminent need for saturation of scheme components. As a step in this direction, this Department has initiated performance-based grading in six core components of DILRMP. The grading has been done based on the performance of Districts as reflected in the Management Information System (MIS) of DILRMP and as reported by the state and UT Governments. Platinum Grading is given to the Districts that have completed saturation, i.e., 100% targets in the respective core components of DILRMP. The nine State Secretaries and 68 District Collectors will be presented with “Bhoomi Samman,” recognising their efforts in achieving outstanding performance as above.