A Viable Approach to Establish Conclusive Land Title in India
Satyaprakash Timmiah Lakshmanappa & Sultan Singh
The system of Indian land record management, largely a legacy of Moghul era, is characterized by extraordinary volumes, complex procedures and poor updation of records. Transactional simplicity is compromised due to the co-existence of two concurrent systems of ?Land Records? (or ?Record of Rights?) and land (deed) ?Registration?. The crux of the problem is that neither of these two distinct systems, completely, comprehensively and definitively establishes the title. The pilot experiment conducted in Gurugram district in the state of Haryana, has provided a viable model to reform the system of land records by repositioning the current system of cadastral maps (known as Musavis) through adoption of geospatial technologies on the basis of well-established real-world coordinates. Often, imageries are incorrectly assumed as direct equivalent of maps. Migration to a unified, comprehensive, cost-effective and up-to-date system to record rights requires mapping of the cadastral maps to geo-referenced points. A methodology using the principle of Geodetic Triangulation has been evolved to correlate the legacy system to the new technology platform with a very high degree of accuracy that has been observed for individual land parcels, thereby providing a durable approach to land reforms.
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