The Uttarakhand Department of Revenue & Board of Revenue is one of the most important department of Uttarakhand.
The main responsibility of the department is to control and regulate all the administrative work judicial work and the work related to the collection of revenue lies on the Board Of Revenue.
About the Board Of Revenue of Uttarakhand and its work
The Board Of Revenue is the highest judicial body of the revenue department. The headquarter of this department is situated in Dehradun. The Chairman, Board Of Revenue works as the H.O.D. for the personnel’s of revenue department. The main task of this board are
- To control, regulate and upgrade all the judicial and administrative work of the revenue department.
- Regular supervision and analysis of the revenue department.
- Under the Board of Revenue, ‘Agriculture census and statistics’ section has been established which work for the data related to the size of holding of the farmer, number of farmers on basis of cast and sex, average size of the holding, number of the crops, area covered by the different crops, irrigated and unirrigated area, seeds, fertilizers and instruments used.
- This data is used by the state and centre government to make different schemes and policies.
- Record preparation of National Land Record Modernization Programme in the state after resurvey, to compile an error free data base of the complete land record.
Other responsibilities of Department of Revenue & Board of Revenue, Uttarakhand
- Chakbandi
- Land Acquisition
- Revenue Collection
- Revenue Police
- Revenue Cases
- Budget
- Transfer of land to departments
- Service Rules
What is Bhu Abhilekh and in Uttarakhand who handled it ?
Bhu Abhilekh is a scheme of center Govt. for the computerization of land records. This scheme was launched by the Ministry of rural development, Govt. of India, as a wholly centrally funded scheme in 1994-95. In Uttarakhand the work of computerization of land records was done by the N.I.C. at the collectorate level in all the thirteen districts. Now this work of computerization has been completed by the N.I.C.
What is NLRMP ?
After discontinuing all the earlier schemes/program of computerization and modernization of land records, the Govt. of India has started a new scheme of National Land Record Modernization Program (NLRMP). This scheme envisages the preparation of error free digitized land records to make it available for the common public.
