e-Governance Success Stories in Maharashtra
Under the eRecords project, all textual records will be scanned and preserved at the taluka as well as the state level. On an average, 10 lakh documents in each taluka are to be scanned. The total volume for the entire state is about 26 crore documents completed and pilot projects have completed in Mulshi and Haveli talukas in Pune district. Approximately 40 lakh documents have already been scanned and indexed till now. The eRecords project will be rolled out in this year i.e. FY 2013-14.
eChawadi was launched on 10 April, 2013 during the Survey Day by Hon.Chief Minister of Maharashtra. eRecords: Scanning of old records The Land Records Department as a custodian of all land records, maintains a huge volume of textual records related to land. These records are old mutations and include old RoR, old Khata Register, Tippan, Akarband, Akarphod patrak, Gunakar book, KJP, consolidation scheme, etc. from the year 1880 onwards. Over a period of time, these records have deteriorated due to various environmental conditions and also due to their continuous use by department officials. Also, there is huge demand for such records at taluka offices. Therefore, these records need to be preserved by converting them into digital form. This will help the department officials in drastically reducing the citizen service time and help them to improve the service quality. Under the eRecords project, all textual records will be scanned and preserved at the taluka as well as the state level. On an average, 10 lakh documents in each taluka are to be scanned. The total volume for the entire state is about 26 crore documents. The development of the Document Search and Retrieval application is already
eMaps: Digitization of maps The Land Records Department is the custodian of valuable spatial records i.e. the cadastral maps. Maharashtra possesses a unique combination of cadastral map sheets which range from year 1880 to till date. There are numerous types of cadastral map sheets like tippans, phalni sheets, pot phalni sheets, gat book, village map sheets, Land Acquisition Measurement Sheets, Non Agricultural measurement sheets etc. These cadastral maps are of different sizes ranging from A4 to A0. To preserve and archive these map sheets, the State has decided to digitize them. These digitized maps will also be used for re-survey and by department officials in their daily operations under the eMaps project. The pilot project was started in the Mulshi Taluka in September 2012. The pilot project is completed and state-wide digitization will be rolled out across the entire state in the financial year 2014-15.
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