Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat

Gujarat Government’s Revenue department has initiated an ambitious project of digitization of all the property card records and makes it available for users online with the concern property’s map also. Property cards are issued by the local authorities to establish the ownership title in the city areas while for rural areas Records of Rights(RoR known as 7/12 Utaro) are issued as the Government certified property ownership title.

Settlement Commissioner & Director of Land Records, Government of Gujarat has initiated process of scanning, digitization & integration with property cards.

Sources in the state revenue department informed that, “it has been decided to provide map of property with each property card. To integrate it with the ROR of city survey area i.e. property card record, it’s scanning and digitization of original map sheet project has been initiated. This sheet is paper based /cloth mounted /laminated. The age of these sheets are 10 to 80/90 years old. After scanning of the original measurement sheet, the next task will be geo-referencing and digitization of property survey records of city surveyed area. It contains shape of the plots, floor details and other measurement details in scale of 1:400. The total number of location of the city survey area is 500. This will be digitized through raster image processing software which converts the image into digital form. This task will be carried out for each and every property one by one. All these data will be uploaded online in next few months.”

The original land survey of various districts of the State of Gujarat was done more than 100 years back. The survey which was done in the late 19th and early 20th century (1880 – 1915) was done manually and with the survey techniques available at that time. Normally re-survey is to be done every 30 years, but for various reasons no re-survey was been carried out, with the result that the survey records are not only very old, fragile and inaccurate but also around 20 to 25% of the records have been lost. Available records also, to some extent, have no commensuration with the ground realities.

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