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The Registration of Births and Deaths Amendment Bill, 2023, wants to push birth and death certificates for property registration using Aadhaar. There are multiple reasons for this exercise – like taxation and claims of inheritance. But beyond the needs of governance, this data collection also powers the property markets. This data sharing will happen through the government.
The digitisation of land deeds and property records was one of the early projects that were taken up post liberalisation in the 90s in India. Even after three decades this process has still not been completed yet. At the national level the Union government is digitising every land parcel using drones under the SVAMITVA Scheme of the Ministry of Panchayat Raj.
The idea of surveying every land parcel to create property cards and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) maps is primarily to resolve
— source news.mongabay.com | Sean Mowbray | 2 Jun 2023