Upload land records of all villages by Oct 31: Gurugram deputy commissioner

GURUGRAM: Deputy commissioner has directed the revenue department officials to upload land records of all villages in the district online by October 31.

The directions were given in a meeting chaired by the DC recently.

DC Amit Khatri instructed the revenue department officials to work at a faster pace to complete the work of making jamabandis (land records) online in a time-bound manner. He reviewed the work done in tehsils and sub-tehsils and issued directions to first clear the pending cases.

“The state government’s focus is to make all land records online ensuring transparency. It is therefore important the district’s land records are uploaded online,” said Khatri, adding that the sub-divisional officers should review this work of uploading land records online at regular intervals.

“We have been directed to upload jamabandis of all the villages in Gurgaon district online. There are a total of 291 villages. Our revenue recoveries were also reviewed in the meeting,” said Basti Ram, district revenue officer.

As per the state government,“Jamabandi is a document prepared as part of record-of-right in every revenue estate. It contains entries regarding ownership, cultivation and up-to-date of various rights in land.”