PIB TrackerBhu-Aadhaar on 40.58 crore parcels, demonstrated to African partners
The Department of Land Resources walked an African Union and UNDP delegation through DILRMP's numbers, the Bharat Land Stack and NAKSHA's drone-and-LiDAR urban survey.
What happened
- Delegates from the African Union Commission, Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zambia and the UNDP visited the Department of Land Resources.
- Over 40.58 crore parcels now carry the 14-digit Bhu-Aadhaar (ULPIN).
- 99.90 per cent of textual Records of Rights are computerised and 97.43 per cent of cadastral maps digitised.
- NAKSHA has finished aerial flying in 145 of 150 urban local bodies, issuing Urban Property (UrPro) Cards.
- Secretary Narendra Bhooshan described land without spatial title as 'dead capital' that citizens cannot leverage.
For Prelims
- DILRMP: the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, run by the Department of Land Resources.
- Bhu-Aadhaar (ULPIN): a 14-digit alphanumeric Unique Land Parcel Identification Number, now on over 40.58 crore parcels.
- Records of Rights: 99.90 per cent computerised, with cadastral maps 97.43 per cent digitised.
- Georeferencing: 76.16 per cent of parcels georeferenced and 85.24 per cent spatial-textual integration achieved.
- NGDRS: the National Generic Document Registration System, used by 17 States and UTs; 98.96 per cent of Sub-Registrar Offices are computerised.
- RCCMS: the Revenue Court Case Management System, covering 94.11 per cent of revenue courts and marking litigation on property records.
- NAKSHA: the National Geospatial Knowledge-based Land Survey of Urban Habitations, using LiDAR and oblique aerial cameras to issue UrPro Cards.
- Bharat Land Stack: a GIS-based federated architecture layering imagery, boundaries, registration, zoning, litigation, circle rates and tenancy.
For UPSC: The best current dataset on land record digitisation, and a live example of digital public infrastructure being exported as a template rather than a product. Use it on e-governance, property rights and South-South technology cooperation.
What it is NOT: A Bhu-Aadhaar is not a title — the ULPIN identifies a parcel, and Indian land records remain presumptive rather than conclusive proof of ownership.
For Mains
Syllabus: GS3.13 · GS2.15 · Linkage L2
Anchor
The credit unlock does not live in the 99.90 per cent of records computerised but in the 76.16 per cent georeferenced — a record without a mapped boundary is still not collateral.
Substantiation (data)
40.58 crore parcels with a 14-digit Bhu-Aadhaar; 99.90 per cent of Records of Rights computerised, 97.43 per cent of maps digitised, 76.16 per cent georeferenced, 85.24 per cent integrated, and 98.96 per cent of Sub-Registrar Offices computerised.
Exemplification
NAKSHA has flown 145 of 150 urban local bodies with LiDAR and oblique cameras and issued Urban Property Cards — a survey of record for urban holdings that had none.
Problematisation
Digitisation transcribes an inherited record; where the underlying entry is contested or stale, the stack makes an unreliable record faster to retrieve rather than truer.
Way-forward
Close the gap between digitised and georeferenced parcels and keep the RCCMS litigation flag live on the record, so that encumbrance surfaces before a loan is made.
Position
The exportable asset here is the standard, not the software — a parcel identifier every department agrees to use is the reform; the GIS layer is the easy part.
Deploys into: IT and geospatial technology + e-governance (GS3.13, GS2.15) · land records modernisation, digital public infrastructure and South-South technology cooperation.
Ministry of Rural Development · 2026-08-27 · PRID 2303882 · PIB source ↗