Parliament Question: Land records modernisation under DILRMP

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF LAND RESOURCES RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3966 TO BE ANSWER ON 27.03.2026 Land records modernisation under DILRMP 3966. Shri Raghav Chadha: Will the Minister of Rural Development be pleased to state: (a) details on the progress made in digitisation of land records, mutation updates and issuance of property rights documents under the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), year-wise and State-wise; (b) number of States with real-time integrated land record systems and the proportion of villages where records remain disputed or pending mutation; (c) whether any assessment has examined the impact of incomplete land records on access to credit, Government schemes and legal protection for rural households, if so, the findings thereof; and (d) steps taken by Government to resolve legacy land disputes and expand land record digitisation to tribal, forest-dwelling communities? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINSTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (Dr. CHANDRA SEKHAR PEMMASANI) (a) & (b) Government of India has been implementing a comprehensive programme for the computerization of land records and digitization of maps in the country by the name of Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP) with 100% financial assistance from Central Government since 2016-17. The cumulative progress under Computerisation and Digitization of land records is given in Annexure-I. As per information available in Management Information System (MIS) of DILRMP, in 27 States/UTs, the land records and registration systems are integrated and facility of auto trigger mutation is available. Further, Land and Land Revenue, including maintenance of land records is a State subject listed at Sl. No.18 & 45 of State List (List II) of the 7th Schedule of the Constitution wherein land revenue is governed by State specific Acts/Rules/Regulations. The data regarding pending mutation, issuance of property rights, and pending disputes is not maintained by the Department. 1(c) No Sir. Under DILRMP land records digitization is undertaken and rural households are not covered. Further, Ministry of Panchayati Raj has also informed that no such specific assessment has been carried out by them to examine the impact of incomplete land records on access to credit. (d) Under DILRMP, provisions are already there to digitise the legacy records of Revenue and Registration Departments. ****** 2Annexure-I Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP) No. of Record of Rights (RoR) Cadastral Maps S. Total No. State/ UT Villages Total Computerized % Total Digitized % Andaman & Nicobar 205 89,747 89,747 100.00 214 214 100.00 1 Islands Andhra 16,267 3,26,17,293 3,26,17,293 100.00 14,725 14,725 100.00 2 Pradesh Arunachal 1,412 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.00 3 Pradesh 22,543 43,92,672 42,22,558 96.13 21,069 19,591 92.98 4 Assam 45,858 4,34,68,047 4,34,68,047 100.00 74,452 74,452 100.00 5 Bihar 25 25 25 100.00 108 108 100.00 6 Chandigarh 20,267 2,50,67,712 2,50,67,712 100.00 48,037 47,872 99.66 7 Chhattisgarh 97 1,19,165 1,19,165 100.00 2,923 2,923 100.00 8 DNH & DD 198 12,828 11,405 88.91 183 147 80.33 9 Delhi 421 7,56,189 7,56,189 100.00 14,828 14,828 100.00 10 Goa 18,511 1,22,37,133 1,22,37,133 100.00 26,911 26,911 100.00 11 Gujarat 7,103 36,14,314 36,14,314 100.00 63,077 63,077 100.00 12 Haryana Himachal 21,429 20,34,915 20,34,915 100.00 2,17,003 2,15,018 99.09 13 Pradesh Jammu & 6,850 6,850 6,845 99.93 23,373 22,143 94.74 14 Kashmir 32,871 27,31,472 26,98,027 98.78 51,585 51,195 99.24 15 Jharkhand 30,126 1,99,40,721 1,99,37,181 99.98 30,317 30,121 99.35 16 Karnataka 1,666 2,81,97,354 2,81,97,354 100.00 10,765 4,685 43.52 17 Kerala 248 249 150 60.24 1,513 1,333 88.10 18 Ladakh 10 72,425 72,425 100.00 0 0 0.00 19 Lakshadweep Madhya 56,851 5,32,96,578 5,32,96,578 100.00 56,435 54,717 96.96 20 Pradesh 21 44,534 2,62,74,755 2,62,74,755 100.00 44,219 43,971 99.44 Maharashtra 22 606 605 516 85.29 1,453 1,449 99.72 Manipur 23 6,932 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.00 Meghalaya 24 640 3,31,160 3,31,160 100.00 1,073 1,073 100.00 Mizoram 3937 23,311 0 0.0 0 0 0.00 25 Nagaland 51,820 2,01,64,329 2,01,28,059 99.82 1,37,304 1,37,243 99.96 26 Odisha 129 2,72,380 2,72,380 100.00 21,161 21,161 100.00 27 Puducherry 13,013 5,54,635 5,39,658 97.30 75,707 62,307 82.30 28 Punjab 49,305 1,35,70,102 1,33,88,607 98.66 1,33,438 1,30,883 98.09 29 Rajasthan 418 1,90,500 1,65,849 87.06 2,554 2,554 100.00 30 Sikkim 16,810 3,68,34,607 3,68,34,607 100.00 30,955 30,955 100.00 31 Tamil Nadu 10,890 1,02,74,968 1,02,74,968 100.00 17,432 14,365 82.41 32 Telangana 897 13,49,403 13,49,403 100.00 5,333 5,333 100.00 33 Tripura 16,691 15,25,474 15,25,474 100.00 87,611 84,816 96.81 34 Uttarakhand 1,08,910 1,10,326 1,10,326 100.00 1,18,247 1,18,247 100.00 35 Uttar Pradesh 42,310 5,87,89,969 5,87,89,969 100.00 68,359 67,561 98.83 36 West Bengal Grand Total 6,47,800 39,89,22,213 39,84,32,794 99.88 14,02,364 13,65,978 97.41 **** 4