Recently, during the 6th Uttarakhand State Anniversary, Hon’ble Chief Minister of the state Sh.Narayan Dutt Tiwari dedicated the entire Land Records Data of all the 13 districts of the state on Internet by launching the Citizen Centric Land Records of Uttarakhand-“Dev-Bhoomi”(http://gov.ua.nic.in/devbhoomi) in the presence of a large gathering. With the launch of this system, citizens and farmers across the state can receive details of their Khataunies anytime, anywhere on Internet, both in Hindi and English. One can search either by Owner’s name or by Plot/Gata numbers or by Khata numbers after selecting the concerned village in the Tehsil from the District.
With financial assistance from Ministry of Rural Development and Technical Support from NIC-Uttarakhand State Unit (Govt. of India), the computerization of Khataunies of all the Villages in the State was completed by State Revenue Department (Govt. of UA) right up to the Tehsil Level in the year 2005-06 and Legal Sanctity accorded to only Computerized Record of Right (RoRs) with effect from 30th Sep’2005. The website consists the data of about 16,618 revenue villages. In all there are 78,21,462 Joint Land-holders/Land-owners comprising around 13,03,916 Khatas/records. Through “dev-bhoomi” website, citizens will be highly benefited and they will no need to wait for long time for obtaining the details of their Land-records. At present one can only view the Khataunies on Internet besides other useful information but work is also underway for issuing the authorized copy of RoRs through Internet based kiosks on PPP or other models.