Jaipur: JMC-Heritage has decided to digitize all land records as a sad condition of the 70-year-old city survey map giving people difficulty identifying their properties.
Commissioner JMC-Heritage Avadhesh Meena said, “We will digitize all land record maps.
After the process is complete, people can access a photocopy while the original will be safely stored safely to prevent further paper decay.” “We will start inviting tenders immediately,” he said.
The entire project will cost more than Rs 70 lakh.
Experts feel the city requires a new survey and the Civic body must stretch its budget to accommodate it.
In 1948, Jaipur Maharaja had conducted a property survey of the walled city that registered the length, wide and the name of the owner of each property.
The maps have not been updated according to developing populations.
The map is made of all 10 ‘chaukaris’ from the walled city that mentions every household.
These maps are useful even today and they help identify the original owner of the property.
They can also be accepted in court.
JMC’s inheritance office has around 66 maps here for all cities walled.
However, many of these maps are torn apart from the side and in the middle so it is difficult for people to find property.
The government did conduct two surveys after 1948, but then the survey was canceled because it was not accurate enough.
Qasi Kudartullah, a map reader in the corporation, said, “Sometimes, we can find property by identifying the environment.
In a walled city, property is usually sold by identifying the original property owner chain to find out the original owner of the property to prevent tenants from selling property sales.