Centre Mulls Unique ID for All Plots of Land by March 2022

The Centre plans to issue a 14-digit identification number to every plot of land in the country within a year.
Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) scheme:

• The Department of Land Resources said that the ULPIN scheme has been launched in 10 States this year and will be rolled out across the country by March 2022.
• The number would uniquely identify every surveyed parcel of land and prevent land fraud, especially in rural India, where land records are outdated and disputed.
• The identification will be based on the longitude and latitude of the land parcel, and is dependent on detailed surveys and geo-referenced cadastral maps.
• It would subsequently integrate its land records database with revenue court records and bank records, as well as Aadhaar numbers on a voluntary basis.
• This is the next step in the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP).
• DILRMP began in 2008 and has been extended several times as its scope grew.
• The programme has been extended to 2023-24, to complete its original targets as well as expand its ambit with a slew of new schemes.
• The department has undertaken new initiatives under the programme like NGDRS [or the National Generic Document Registration System], ULPIN, linking of court to land records, integration [of] consent based Aadhaar number with land records etc. which necessitated its further extension beyond 2020-21 till 2023-24.
• The ULPIN scheme components will enhance the service deliveries to the citizen of the country and will also function as inputs to the schemes of the other sectors like Agriculture, Finance Disaster Management.
• Clear land titles will ease a lot of constraints from making it easier for the poor to borrow from the formal financial sector to easing commercial land acquisition for infrastructure projects instead of the misuse of eminent domain.

SOURCE: THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT