New Delhi: Union government announced that soon, people in the country will be able to get their land records in their own language.

The Department of Land Resources, MoRD will plan to roll out the multilingual software from April 2022.

After that, the land records will be available in 22 languages.

Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Shri Giriraj Singh, while speaking after releasing an e-book on Land Governance Reforms, announced in Budget titled “Empowering Citizens-Powering India.”Speaking on the NGDRS software developed indigenously, Shri Giriraj Singh said that the NGDRS software costs around 4 crores to the government but the use of this software resulted in increasing land revenue by the State Governments.

The Minister said that State NGDRS is being implemented in 13 States which will be benefitted to 22 crore people. Till now, 30.9 lakh documents registered through the system from which revenue of more than 16 thousand crores has been received.

The Minister said that after the rollout of ULPIN (Unique Land Parcel Identification Number) in the country, No one can take away the rights of the poor. Linking ULPIN with PAN, Aadhar, land records, Courts and banking system, will get rid of corruption and fraud in land matters. So far, ULPIN is rolled out in 14 States.

The Minister also requested State Governments to spread awareness about the land reforms amongst people.The contents of the e-book are related to Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN), National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS) and Multilingual Land Records – to break the linguistic barrier in land records.

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