Bengaluru:
Eyeing a piece of land but unsure of buying it? Soon, finding out details of land records will be as easy as booking a cab on your smartphone — thanks to an app that will be unveiled in the next few weeks. All you need to do is key in your name and mobile number.
For instance, if you’re sipping a cuppa at an MG Road cafe and use the app, you will get the plot number of the place via SMS and know whether it’s a government or private property.
The government is in the final stages of testing the app, with officials at the survey, settlement and land records department already using it. The app is like an android application but the back-end work of syncing details of land records has been a mammoth task and is being verified.
Munish Moudgil, commissioner, survey, settlement and land records department, said: “The app will use longitude and latitude details from GPS coordinates and give citizens the requisite information. Not only will it benefit them during transactions, but also help government officials who now have to go back to dusty files to check records.”
The app is meant to serve a twofold purpose. “…One, to give government officials from various departments easy access to information on land so they can do their job without having to rummage through their desks. Second, it aims to help citizens,” he said.
It’ll come in handy for those looking at buying land — they’ll get to know if someone is trying to sell them government land or if it is the right survey number.
HOW IT WORKS
You have to enter your name and mobile number. Within minutes, you’ll get an SMS with details like survey number/plot number, whether it is a lake (as per records), forest land, rajakaluve, government or private land. “We are factoring a 30-metre error that could pop up because of the GPS coordinate of the person. If there is another plot with a survey number within 30 metres of the person’s location, details of that will also be sent to the user,” said Munish Moudgil, commissioner, survey, settlement and land records department.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Bengaluru / by Chethan Kumar / July 01st, 2015