National Conference on Land Administration and Disaster Management Gujarat

Conference Overview

• Two days National Conference on Land Administration and Disaster Management was launched at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

• The Department of land resources (Ministry of rural development) in partnership with the revenue department of Gujarat organized it.

Primary Focus

• The conference focused on three important pillars:

1. Digitizing and innovating Land Governance.
2. The improved Disaster Resiliency through its connection with land use planning.
3. Getting Citizens to own their land.

Important Launches and Openings.

• Opening of new Next-Gen Revenue Offices.
• Launch of the Revenue Diary.
• Introduction of the Integrated Land Administration (ILA) System, a single digital system to facilitate the management of land records, registration, court cases, and resurveys.

SVAMITVA Scheme Highlight

• The families of the nomadic tribes were also given a major step towards ensuring their right to own their property by giving them SVAMITVA property cards.

Discussions and Themes

• The conference was a major avenue where the states and UTs shared with each other best practices.
• The major issues discussed were:
  • Reformation of revenue and land laws.
  • Going electronic in registration.
  • Application of GIS and remote sensing in land mapping of urban areas.
  • Land acquisition and revenue court reforms.
  • Combining land-use planning and disaster risk reduction.

Broader Initiative

• The incident promotes the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) which is meant to introduce transparency and accountability in land administration.

About the Host State: Gujarat

• Capital: Gandhinagar
• Chief Minister: Bhupendra Patel
• Governor: Acharya Devvrat
• Popular National Parks: Gir National Park, Blackbuck National Park, Marine National Park, Vansda National Park.