The Himachal Pradesh State Unit of NIC has successfully developed a software for computerization of land records. The project for computerization of land records in Himachal Pradesh was assigned to the National Informatics Centre in December 1991. In the pilot phase in Kangra District, it was decided to cover only five tehsils out of the total of 17 tehsils/sub-tehsils.
After going through the required phases of testing and subsequent modifications, the software (for Jamabandi Records Computerization) was finalized in October 1992. However, actual data entry from Jamabandis could be started only in February, 1993. Data from Jamabandis for more than 400 villages have been entered into the system within a short span of 8 months.
The Software has been developed in FoxBase under XENIX environment and run on a Super-AT(386). The Software incorporates extensive on-line validation checks to ensure maximum accuracy.
The process of computerization has brought several discrepancies in the original records to light. This has been possible because the Software reflects reconciliation errors in its validation checks applied extensively during data entry.