GUWAHATI
The Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) successful Assam has go the archetypal tribal assembly nether the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution to afloat digitise its onshore records.
Officials said the digitisation of much than 15 lakh onshore documents, including texts and maps, crossed the 8,970 sq. km BTR was completed a fewer weeks ago, ending decades of manual record-keeping.
There are 10 tribal councils nether the Sixth Schedule successful the north-east - 3 each successful Assam, Meghalaya, and Mizoram, and 1 successful Tripura. Two of Assam’s councils, successful Karbi Anglong-West Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao, were acceptable up 5 decades earlier the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) was constituted successful 2003.
The BTC administers the BTR comprising 5 districts successful bluish and occidental Assam.
The Sixth Schedule contains peculiar provisions for the medication of tribal areas, empowering autonomous councils to negociate land, forest, and section governance wrong their jurisdictions. However, these councils person often faced assets constraints, infrastructural gaps, and administrative hurdles.
Officials said the BTR government’s adoption of technology-driven governance, including the e-office system, has demonstrated however specified challenges tin beryllium addressed successful enactment with the Digital India Mission.
BTC Secretary Dhiraj Saud said the digitisation process began successful 2023 to heighten transparency successful onshore ownership and simplify customary landholding patterns.
“The workout progressive ground-level surveys crossed each subdivisions of Baksa, Chirang, Kokrajhar, Tamulpur, and Udalguri districts. Old onshore records, immoderate dating backmost respective decades, were digitised and cross-verified with gross records and maps,” helium said.
Officials said Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping was integrated to guarantee accuracy successful onshore boundaries.
The workout besides helped streamline the Pramod Boro-led BTR government’s Mission Bwismwuthi 2.0 earlier this year, nether which onshore rights were provided to 47,000 indigenous landless families, including 9,000 tiny beverage growers and rubber farmers. In the archetypal signifier of Mission Bwismwuthi, which offers 14 land-related services, much than 2.11 lakh applications were disposed of.
Officials said the caller integer level present allows farmers, landowners, and citizens to cheque onshore presumption done kiosks, mobile applications, and web portals.
“Land disputes person often been the origin of societal hostility successful our area. By digitising records, we are ensuring transparency and minimising chances of corruption, forgery, and conflict,” a Revenue Department authoritative said.
They added that the BTR’s onshore grounds digitisation and e-office strategy person go a lawsuit survey for different autonomous councils successful the north-east.
