The modern revenue record rooms would be ready by November 15 at all district headquarters of Haryana, Sanjeev Kaushal, Additional Chief Secretary and Financial Commissioner, Haryana Revenue and Disaster Management Department, said on Wednesday.
Presiding over the review meeting regarding the Swamitva Yojana through video conferencing with the Deputy Commissioners of all the districts of the state, he said that the work of digitizing the age-old revenue records has picked up pace in the state and soon these records will be easily available at a click of the mouse, whereas earlier it used to take a lot of time to view and trace records.
The ACS said that the Revenue Department is filled with lakhs of files and papers, some even as old as 1870. Under this new initiative, important revenue records and documents are being scanned, cataloged and kept in digital boxes in modern record rooms.
Giving details in this regard, he said that till date 17,44,89,332 have been uploaded by the department out of total 18,70,38,840 documents which is 97.94 percent.
He said that Panchkula and Charkhi Dadri have uploaded 100 percent images which are 29,88,840 and 21,31,158 respectively. Similarly, 1,11,98,823 images have been uploaded in Karnal, which is 98.86 percent.
Kaushal said these images are being verified by revenue verifier.