Dedicated Capacity Building Cell To Be Set Up To Address Specific Requirements Of North Eastern States

New Delhi, November 25 (TNA) Secretary, Department of Land Resources, Ajay Tirkey chaired a review meeting on Bhumi Samvaad VII with the theme “Land Governance in North Eastern States – Digitization Solutions for Tomorrow” on Friday at New Delhi. Department of Land Resource organised as part of Bhumi Samvaad VII, a meeting with North Eastern States and Autonomous Hills District Councils (ADCs) was held to review progress under Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP) and other initiatives / issues.

Tirkey in his address emphasized that providing good governance to people is the prime objective and all concerned need to ensure a commitment to move forward and that the challenge is to steer all our efforts for effective land governance within the overall constitutional framework. He also stressed upon the point that States which have achieved saturation in Digitization of land records have moved ahead and leapfrogged in process of development.

He further emphasized that Digitization of land records is a prerequisite for effective implementation of development programs and schemes including infrastructure development as well as all social sector schemes. Secretary, DOLR emphasized that starting point of good governance across sectors is good land governance. He further expressed his happiness to note that now North Eastern States are also moving forward and a number of projects of digitization of land records have been sanctioned.

He assured the support of DOLR in actively associating in the project formulation and ensuring execution of activities in the right manner. Ajay Tirkey stated that a dedicated Capacity Building Cell will be set up to address the specific requirements of North Eastern States and that each Autonomous Hill District Council (ADCs) in the North Eastern States will be supported by a dedicated team of officers of Department of Land Resources, headed by a Director level officer.

All such individual Teams will report to Joint Secretary, Sonmoni Bora. Tirkey also informed that various Project proposals of digitization of land records of the North Eastern States and ADCs have recently been approved for Assam, Bodoland Territorial Council, Mizoram and Tripura. Secretary, DoLR requested all ADCs to send their proposals.