Digital push for land registration, Tripura becomes first state to launch BanAdhikar App

Agartala, Dec 03: In a digital push for property registration and patta land demarcation, Tripura Government has launched National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS) and BanAdhikar App on Friday.
Union Minister of Rural Development Giriraj Singh has launched the Tripura BanAdhikar Mobile App and the NGDRS virtually in presence of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and Revenue minister N.C. Debbarma.
Initially, the NGDPRS will cover Sadar, Mohanpur and Jirania sub-registry offices in West Tripura district, Bishalgarh, Sonamura and Jampuijala sub-registry offices in Sepahijala district.
The Union Minister said the new initiatives would provide land related services to all sections of people as well as protect the rights of Janajati patta holders under Tripura Forest Act. He expressed hope that the patta holders would play an important role in the state’s GDP growth.
The Union Minister stressed on horticulture in the forest patta lands to uplift the socio-economic status of the Janajati people.
While the web portal- NGDRS will provide property registration services to the citizens, registration department and its allies, the Tripura BanAdhikar App, a GPS-based integrated mobile app for RoFR patta land survey, has been launched for protecting Forest Rights for STs and traditional forest dwellers. Tripura became the first state in the country to introduce such an app.
Commenting on the initiative, the Chief Minister tweeted, “This System will help in reducing the cost and number of visits required for forest patta land demarcation and registration. It will also help in solving majority of land disputes and our indigenous communities will get benefits of all land related govt schemes effectively.”
Deb then wrote on Facebook, “the Janajati population in Tripura is 32 percent. But the Janajati patta holders were deprived of receiving various facilities of the central government including Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi as they couldn’t solve various land related disputes.”
“But, as the Prime Minister intervened in the matter, now, the Janajati people will get this facility. It reflects the Prime Minister’s affection towards the Janajati people. The GPS-based Tripura BanAdhikar App will play an effective role to prevent corruption up to the lower level,” he wrote.
According to Dev, Tripura has been able to digitize most of the government schemes and projects and make them more user-friendly following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision.
The App has been initiated by the Directorate of Land Records, Tripura in collaboration with the North Eastern Space Application Centre and Tripura Space Application Centre.
Major features of the app include instant interactive area measurement of patta lands by operational staff, identifying actual ground points, creating boundaries of individual pattas, checking facilities to check the quantum of patta lands in Khatian and finding the shortest path to reach pattas.