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Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda connected Tuesday said the State authorities has taken up a monolithic digitisation inaugural to sphere important onshore and gross records.
Nearly 100 crore pages of documents successful the Revenue Department, galore of which are aged and fragile, are being digitised to guarantee their semipermanent conservation and casual nationalist access, helium said.
Speaking to reporters successful Kushalnagar successful Kodagu district, the Minister said that scanning and indexing of astir 50 crore pages is presently nether mode arsenic a imperishable solution to safeguard Revenue documents. Another 50 crore pages volition beryllium digitised successful the adjacent signifier to implicit the initiative, helium added.
He said steps are being taken to marque these digitised records accessible to the public, and the digitisation process is already successful advancement successful Kodagu district.
The Minister besides said that the section has identified an further 1 lakh acres of darkasth (government) onshore for ‘podi’ updating of records. This effort aims to resoluteness ownership disputes and streamline onshore records. So acold successful 2025, astir 1.4 lakh acres of darkasthu onshore has been taken up for podi work.
“In the 5 years of the erstwhile government, lone astir 8,000 acres of onshore underwent podi. In contrast, the Congress authorities has made large advancement successful the past two-and-a-half years,” helium replied.
The Minister said that the authorities is committed to ensuring wide and legally valid ownership documents for landholders done ongoing survey and record-updating drives. “The records volition beryllium verified and podi enactment is taken up if they are legally valid.”
Earlier successful the day, the Minister performed Guddali Puja for the operation of the Prajasoudha (taluk office) astatine Kushalnagar, which was declared a taluk successful 2019. The Congress authorities had announced the gathering and enactment commenced connected Tuesday.
Madikeri MLA Mantar Gowda, Deputy Commissioner Venkataraja and different elder officials from the territory were present.
