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Land records and DILRMP
Who owns which piece of land in India is still settled by a textual record and a survey map that often disagree with each other. The programme that digitises both entered its third phase in September 2026, tying every parcel to a map and to a 14 digit number of its own.
10 Sep 2026 · 9 Sep 2026
Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme
The record of who owns which piece of land is the government's own rule book, and it has to be read, mapped and registered before it means anything. The programme that digitises that record entered its third phase in September 2026, with operational guidelines and ₹565.50 crore for the years 2026 to 2031.
- It began in 2008 as the National Land Records Modernisation Programme, merging two Centrally Sponsored Schemes.
- In 2016 it was revamped as the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), a Central Sector Scheme funded entirely by the Union.
- DILRMP 3.0 builds a GIS enabled Land Stack tying cadastral maps to Records of Rights, registrations and court cases.
- State Land Stacks federate into a National Land Stack, with the data staying with the States.
- Every parcel gets a Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN), a 14 digit identity also called the Universal Bhu-Aadhaar.
- Registration is to be done at Registration Seva Kendras, modelled on Passport Seva Kendras.
- NAKSHA, the National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations, is the pilot for urban land records and issues Urban Property Cards.
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