With reference to the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, consider the following statements :

1. To implement the scheme, the Central Government provides 100% funding.

2. Under the Scheme, Cadastral Maps are digitised.

3. An initiative has been undertaken to transliterate the Records of Rights from local language to any of the languages recognized by the Constitution of India.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Option 4.

Key Points

Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (erstwhile National Land Record Modernization Programme-) was revamped and converted as a Central Sector Scheme with effect from 1st April, 2016 with 100% funding by the Centre. Hence statement 1 is correct.
Substantial progress has been achieved under the DILRMP Programme.
In terms of basic components, Computerization of Land Records i.e. 95.08 per cent Record of Rights (RoR) have been completed (6,25,062 villages out of total 6,57,396 villages in the country), 68.02 percent Cadastral Maps have been digitized (2,49,57,221 maps out of total 3,66,92,728 maps). Hence statement 2 is correct.
In order to address the problem of linguistic barriers in land governance, the Government with the technical support of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Pune, has undertaken an initiative to transliterate the Records of Rights available in local language to any of the 22 Schedule VIII languages of the Constitution. Hence statement 3 is correct.