Date: 2025-12-31Category: Press ReleaseState: Union GovernmentCountry: India
Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Minister of State for Rural Development and Communications to launch ‘Land Stack’ and release ‘Glossary of Revenue Terms’ (GoRT) on 31st December 2025
**Executive Summary**
Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Minister of State for Rural Development and Communications, launched the 'Land Stack' and released the 'Glossary of Revenue Terms' (GoRT) initiatives to modernize land administration and enhance transparent land governance for citizens. The 'Land Stack' was launched in pilot locations of Union Territory of Chandigarh and Tamil Nadu, and the GoRT was released in New Delhi. Both initiatives are scheduled for 31st December 2025.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Land Stack Initiative**
* Aims to provide single-window access to land and property information, addressing fragmented information across departments.
* It's an integrated, GIS-based digital platform drawing from international best practices.
* Benefits include:
* Enabling informed decision-making.
* Enhancing citizen convenience, transparency, and trust.
* Reducing the risk of inadvertent purchase of unauthorised properties.
* Improving inter-departmental coordination and supporting data-driven governance.
* Representing a significant e-Governance reform.
* **Glossary of Revenue Terms (GoRT) Initiative**
* Prepared by the DoLR in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence in Land Administration and Management (CoE-LAM) at YASHADA, Pune.
* Provides meanings of land-related revenue terms in Vernacular, Hindi, English, and Roman scripts.
* Aims to harmonize terminology to make land data comparable and interoperable nationally, without replacing State-specific terminology.
* Serves as an authoritative reference for revenue officials, policymakers, judicial authorities, and citizens.
**Impact Analysis**
**Citizens:**
* **Impact:**
* Improved access to land and property information.
* Increased transparency and convenience in land-related matters.
* Reduced risk of fraudulent property transactions.
* **Action Required:**
* Utilize the Land Stack portal for informed decision-making.
* Refer to the Glossary of Revenue Terms (GoRT) for understanding land-related terminology.
**Revenue Officials, Policymakers, Judicial Authorities:**
* **Impact:**
* Enhanced access to standardized and interoperable land data.
* Improved inter-departmental coordination and data-driven governance.
* Authoritative reference for land-related terminology.
* **Action Required:**
* Adopt the GoRT as a standard reference for revenue terms.
* Integrate the Land Stack platform into existing workflows.
**Government Agencies:**
* **Impact:**
* Improved efficiency and transparency in land administration.
* Enhanced data-driven governance and policy-making.
* **Action Required:**
* Support the integration and maintenance of the Land Stack platform.
* Promote the use of the GoRT across all relevant departments.
Key Entities Referenced
Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme (DILRMP): A program by the government to modernize land records in India.
Land Stack: An integrated, GIS-based digital platform to provide single-window access to land and property information.
Glossary of Revenue Terms (GoRT): A glossary providing meanings of land-related revenue terms in multiple languages to harmonize terminology and make land data comparable nationally.
Ministry of Rural Development: The ministry responsible for launching and overseeing initiatives related to rural development, including land governance.
Pune: The location of the Centre of Excellence in Land Administration and Management (CoE-LAM) at YASHADA, which collaborated in preparing the Glossary of Revenue Terms.
Ministry of Rural Development
Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Minister of
State for Rural Development and
Communications to launch ‘Land Stack’ and
release ‘Glossary of Revenue Terms’ (GoRT) on
31st December 2025
A major leap towards transparent Land Governance and
"Ease of Living" for Citizens
प्रव तथ: 31 DEC 2025 5:09PM by PIB Delhi
In a significant stride towards modernizing land administration under the Digital India Land Record
Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), the Minister of State for Rural Development and
Communications, Dr. Chandra sekhar Pemmasani, launched the ‘Land Stack’ in the Pilot Locations
of Union Territory of Chandigarh and Tamil Nadu and release the ‘Glossary of Revenue Terms’
(GoRT) on 31st December 2025 in New Delhi.
These initiatives mark a transition towards modern, transparent, and citizen-centric land governance,
aligning India’s historical land record systems with the demands of contemporary digital governance.
Land Stack: Enabling Informed Decision Making
Drawing from international best practices in countries like Singapore, the UK, and Finland, the Land
Stack is envisaged as an integrated, GIS-based digital platform.Currently, citizens often face fragmented information across various departments. The Land Stack
addresses this by providing single-window access to land and property information for both citizens and
government agencies.
Benefits of Land Stack:
The Land Stack portal enables informed decision-making by citizens through integrated access to
land-related information.
It enhances citizen convenience, transparency and trust.
It reduces the risk of inadvertent purchase of unauthorised or non-compliant properties.
It improves inter-departmental coordination and supports data-driven governance.
It represents a significant e-Governance reform in land administration.
Glossary of Revenue Terms (GoRT): Bridging the Linguistic Divide
India’s land administration is shaped by diverse historical influences, from Todar Mal’s revenue reforms to
British settlement systems (Ryotwari, Mahalwari). This has resulted in a scenario where terms like
Khasra, Dag, or Pula en may refer to similar concepts, while identical terms may hold different meanings
across States.
To address this, the DoLR, in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence in Land Administration and
Management (CoE-LAM) at YASHADA, Pune, has prepared the Glossary of Revenue Terms.
Highlights of GoRT:
It provides meanings of various land-related revenue terms in Vernacular, Hindi, English, and
Roman scripts.
The objective is to harmonize terminology to make land data comparable and interoperable
nationally, without replacing State-specific terminology.
It serves as an authoritative reference for revenue officials, policymakers, judicial authorities, and
citizens.
The launch of these initiatives represents a collective national effort to bring coherence to India’s diverse
land administration.
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