For error-free land records, 65 tehsils go online with 7/12 extracts

Apr 08 2015 : The Times of India (Pune)

Sarang Dastane

Pune:





As many as 65 tehsils in the state are set to adopt the e-mutation programme for quick delivery of the 712 extracts, the property ownership document, to citizens and help talathis, the local revenue department official, to maintain an updated data of land ownership.The government has been working on the e-mutation programme for two years.There are 358 tehsils in the state. According to the office of the state settlement commissioner, the herculean task of uploading the land related data of every tehsil on the state server was completed last week.
After the trial runs which are expected to be completed by next month, the tehsils will start adopting the e-mutation programme. Talathis will be able to generate the updated 712 extracts and deliver them to citizens in less than 15 days. “The implementation of emutation is likely to begin across the state next month. Some tehsils have already adopted it. We have recently permitted 65 more tehsils to start daily use of e-mutation, which is a computer-based system.Our officials are monitoring the trial runs of every tehsil and are hoping to complete the trials suc cessfully at the earliest,“ said Sambhaji Kadu Patil, settlement commissioner and director of land records.
Of the 65 tehsils ready to adopt e-mutation, 17 are from Nagpur division, the highest in the state.About 16 tehsils are from Aurangabad, nine from Amravati, eight from Nashik and six each from Pune and Mumbai division. One or two tehsils are successfully completing the trails every day .
A senior official said, “E-mutation will ensure faster work at the offices of the talathis. In fact, every talathi has been given a laptop connected to the main data server and other offices that take up work pertaining to land records. The system ensures that citizens do not have to wait for long to complete their landrelated transactions at the talathi office. It automatically generates notices to be sent to previous land owners seeking their replies.“
With the use of e-mutation, talathis will give up the hand-written entries of transactions on 712 extracts. Each talathi will now be able to generate error-free computerized extracts.