In two months, the Chennai corporation will launch a portal with all records of land in the city. The process to enter land records and digitise them began on December 28 and is expected to be completed in about 20 days. After the records are digitised, it will be cross verified and made open to officials.
A few months later, this portal will be available for public, said Meghanath Reddy, deputy commissioner, revenue and finance. The website is called Chennai Land Administration Portal (GCC-CLAP).
“The civic body has a lot of land in its possession but the problem is they are not aware where the land is. The details are available only at the ward and zonal level. There is no single place or portal where it can be verified. So whenever a project is proposed even as simple as construction of a school, the ward level officials can only provide information where it can be taken up. So we decided to make this process simple and make the land records available at the click of the finger,” said Reddy.
Revenue and land estate department officials told TOI that no one in the corporation has consolidated data on the land available with the civic body. “The extent of the land and the taluk name along with the survey number will be made available on the portal. Later on, we will refine this data further as to whether the land is encroached or leased or rented…,” said an official.
Once the portal is ready, anyone can enter the survey number, taluk name or ward number and easily access land records.
“This will also help us in ensuring that our land is not encroached and those which are encroached can be reclaimed faster,” said Reddy.
For the next 20 days, officials at the ward level have been asked to come to the Ripon building and enter the land records data available with them.
Source Times of India #Chennai Real estate