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The Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, will launch the Operational Guidelines for DILRMP 3.0 (2026-2031) on 10 September 2026.
DILRMP 3.0 runs as a Central Sector Scheme with an anticipated outlay of Rs 565.50 crore, covering all States and Union Territories over five years.
The shift is from record digitisation to a GIS-enabled 'Land Stack' treated as Digital Public Infrastructure, integrating maps, ownership, registration and revenue court cases.
Interventions include Universal Bhu-Aadhaar (14-digit ULPIN) for every land parcel, paperless registration, a Registration Repository, RCCMS for revenue courts and completion of the NAKSHA urban pilot.
75 Sub-Registrar Offices are to be upgraded into 'Registration Seva Kendras' at an outlay of Rs 37.5 crore.
Move land governance from digitised record-keeping to an integrated, GIS-enabled Land Stack usable as Digital Public Infrastructure, promoting Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business.
Key: Central Sector Scheme, Rs 565.50 crore, run by the Department of Land Resources across all States and UTs; API-based secure integration to remove repeat visits to government offices.
Give every land parcel one unmistakable identity so records, maps and transactions refer to the same object.
Key: A 14-digit number derived from the parcel's latitude-longitude coordinates and geo-referenced cadastral maps; encodes State, district, sub-district and village codes plus a unique plot ID. Launched under DILRMP in 2021.
Create and update land records for urban areas, where cadastral records are weakest, using aerial survey.
Key: A one-year pilot under DILRMP launched in February 2025 in 152 Urban Local Bodies across 26 States and 3 UTs; about Rs 194 crore, fully centrally funded; Survey of India is the technical partner. DILRMP 3.0 will complete this pilot.
Give legal ownership documents for RURAL inhabited (abadi) land - the counterpart to NAKSHA's urban mandate.
Key: Central Sector Scheme launched on National Panchayat Day, 24 April 2020; nodal ministry is the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, not DoLR; drone survey with Survey of India as technology partner; issues Property Cards recording the Record of Rights.
Foundational, reusable digital systems with open standards and APIs on which many public and private services can be built. India's DPI is described in three layers - identity (Aadhaar), payments (UPI) and data sharing (DEPA) - collectively the India Stack. A Land Stack adds land as a further such layer.
Simple Analogy: Roads the state builds once, on which anyone may run their own vehicles.
The statute governing property registration in India. Section 17 makes registration compulsory for non-testamentary instruments creating, declaring, assigning, limiting or extinguishing any right in immovable property of value above Rs 100 - an archaic but still-operative threshold. DILRMP 3.0's paperless registration and Registration Repository work within this framework.
Fully funded by the Union and implemented through central machinery, usually on Union List subjects. A Centrally Sponsored Scheme shares cost with States (50:50, 60:40, 90:10 and similar) and is implemented by them, typically on State List subjects. Land and land revenue are State subjects, which is why land record modernisation began as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme in 2008 before its 2016 conversion.
The rural-urban pair: SVAMITVA (Ministry of Panchayati Raj, 2020) surveys village abadi land; NAKSHA (DoLR, under DILRMP, 2025 pilot) surveys urban habitations. A frequent exam trap is swapping their nodal ministries.
India's national survey and mapping organisation is the technical or technology partner for both NAKSHA and SVAMITVA, and supplies the geo-referencing that ULPIN depends on.
Digital Public Infrastructure was a central theme of India's G20 presidency; the Land Stack extends the Aadhaar-UPI-DEPA template to land.
Clear, machine-readable title reduces litigation and collateral risk, linking land records to credit access and to registering-property indicators.
GS Paper 2 > Governance > e-Governance and Government Schemes
General Awareness > Government Schemes
General Awareness > Digital Infrastructure and Land Title for Collateral
Consider the following statements about G-20: 1. The G-20 group was originally established as a platform for the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors to discuss the international economic and financial issues. 2. Digital public infrastructure is one of India's G-20 priorities. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: Both 1 and 2
A 14-digit unique identification number for a land parcel, generated from its geo-coordinates; introduced under DILRMP in 2021.
A GIS-enabled Digital Public Infrastructure integrating cadastral maps, ownership records, property registration and revenue court cases in one interoperable ecosystem.
The paperless Revenue Court Case Management System proposed under DILRMP 3.0, linked directly to land records to track disputes.
A survey map showing the boundaries and ownership of individual land parcels, as distinct from a topographic map.