Dishaank app of Karnataka

In news– The Survey Settlement and Land Records (SSLR) unit of the Revenue department in the Karnataka government has attempted to make original land records available at a click on a smartphone screen through a mobile application called Dishaank.

About Dishaank app-

The objective of this app is to enable citizens to avail the information about the land and its ownership as recorded in the Bhoomi database.

The land ownership data provided by the app includes the name of the landowner, the extent of land as per records, ownership type, land type, restriction/litigations on the land, category of land and any other active transactions being done on the land.
The Dishaank app leverages Karnataka’s decision to digitize all land records (under the Bhoomi project) since 1990.
It has been developed under the Karnataka Geographical Information System program of the Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Center (KSRSAC).
The KSRSAC sources satellite data and provides it to agencies such as the SSLR department for innovative use.
This app was built on digitized versions of maps for 70 to 80 lakh old parcels of land from a land survey dating back to 1965.
It is currently in the process of being updated with data for nearly 2.5 crore subdivisions around half the subdivisions in the state.
The app is only meant to provide clarity on the original status of a piece of land– it should not be used for legal purposes in land disputes.
The app is expected to bring in transparency and enable citizens to identify the actual owner, location of land etc. thereby reducing land-related disputes.
In the initial part of the project, the KSRSAC digitized 30,854 village maps for Karnataka and later geo-referenced all the village maps.
The geo-referenced village map data was linked to the Bhoomi land records by the SSLR so that citizens do not have to approach the revenue department for knowing the land details.