Hemis becomes first village to publish digitized land records

Advisor to LG, Pawan Kotwal paying visit to Hemis village in Ladakh on Monday.
Advisor to LG, Pawan Kotwal paying visit to Hemis village in Ladakh on Monday.

Excelsior Correspondent

KHARU, Oct 14: The Hemis village of UT Ladakh has become the first village to publish digitized land records under the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP) scheme.
In this regard a function was organized here today.
The function was attended by Advisor to LG, Pawan Kotwal, Ghulam Mehdi Executive councillor (Minority affairs) and Deputy Commissioner Leh Santosh Sukhadeve.
On the occasion, 3 key documents were launched: Digitized Jamabandi, Digitized Survey Map and Area Differential Sheet.
While addressing the gathering Advisor emphasized on the need of updated modern digital land records in today’s time and called upon the public to actively come forward for this grand land digitisation scheme in UT Ladakh which will be helpful in the all-round development of the UT Ladakh for the coming generations.
He also highlighted the significance of Hemis Monastery, stating, “This is the world’s famous monastery. All the Buddhist religious scriptures have been digitized in today’s time.”
“We will consider this as a baseline and will finish it. We will also translate it. Our purpose is not to keep the record in one language and will translate it into Bodhi as well,” he added.
Deputy Commissioner/CEO Leh, ACR Leh and officers from CPWD department also attended the function.