Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said that 18.50 crore revenue records have been scanned and digitalized at the state level and in all the districts.

“Under the Digital India Mission of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a remarkable and historic step has been taken for the betterment of people by digitizing the revenue records of Haryana. This will prove to be an important initiative for the Government to eliminate corruption and bring more transparency in the system,” the Chief Minister said after inaugurating the modern revenue record rooms in all 22 districts of Haryana through a virtual meeting.

Khattar said that earlier, it was a very difficult task to maintain, preserve and find the old revenue records that were tied up in bundles. It also took a long time to find the records and there was a possibility of records getting damaged, torn, go missing or get tampered with.

The first modern revenue record room in the state was set up in district Kaithal as a pilot project on June 24, 2017 and after that on December 25, 2019, on the occasion of good governance day, the modern revenue record room project was started for all the districts. These record rooms have been prepared in all the districts ahead of time, he said.

The Chief Minister said that the 75th Amrit Mahotsav is being celebrated all over the country and Haryana has further expanded e-governance services by digitizing the important revenue records. In future, important records related to other departments will also be digitized in the same manner. Further through the digitization of this record, the implementation of many schemes will also be accelerated and everything will become convenient for the public through this system, he said.

Khattar further said that the Prime Minister has appreciated the schemes and works done in the interest of the public by the State Government at many forums and later those schemes and programmes have been started at the central level and in other states as well.

The State has received 148 awards so far, out of which about 100 awards have been received for the successful implementation of e-governance services, he added.

Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, who also holds the portfolio of Revenue and Disaster Management Department, said that the revenue records are of great importance and it was a challenge to preserve them properly in the old stereotypical way. The Revenue Department has scanned the records in a very short span of time on the call of the Chief Minister and then uploaded it on the portal of NIC.

With the records being digitized in this way, it will be much easier to access and obtain it. NIC and HARTRON have done commendable work with strenuous hard work, he added.