NC Government Deliberately Delaying Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme in J&K: Pawan Sharma
Jammu, 08 July 2025: Senior BJP leader and former State Secretary BJP Jammu and Kashmir, Pawan Sharma, has expressed serious concern over the deliberate neglect of the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) by the National Conference (NC) government in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sharma highlighted that this Centrally Sponsored Scheme, aimed at updating and modernising land records, is being ignored repeatedly by the NC-led administration under various false pretexts, thereby depriving the common masses of its intended benefits.
“Digitally updated and accessible land records will significantly reduce the hardships faced by the public in land ownership, mutation, and registration processes,” Sharma stated. “Unfortunately, the National Conference government is sabotaging this prestigious programme as part of a well-planned strategy to avoid transparency and accountability in the revenue department.”
He appealed to the administration to accelerate the digitisation process, ensure the entire revenue record is available in multiple languages, and end the undue dependency on Persianised Urdu, which continues to create unnecessary barriers for the public.
Sharma also raised concern over the lack of proper training and equipment provided to revenue officials tasked with digitisation. He pointed out that most field staff, though experienced in manual records handling, are being forced into highly technical tasks without professional training or modern tools.
“Digitisation is a specialised task. Forcing field staff without adequate training is both unproductive and unfair. The process is moving at a snail’s pace, which reflects poor planning and deliberate inefficiency on the part of the government,” he added.
Sharma urged the LG administration and central authorities to take serious note of this issue and ensure proper training, deployment of modern technology, and strict monitoring of progress so that transparency and ease of access can be ensured in land-related matters.
