A
land record portal developed by the Goa government has won an international
award for making e-governance concepts people-friendly and accessible, Chief
Minister Manohar Parrikar said Tuesday.
Dharnaksh,
an e-government project conceived and implemented by the department of
settlement and land records, won the Geospatial World Application Excellence
award at Holland’s Rotterdam last week, beating over 270 nominations from
across the globe, he said.
The
citation issued by the organisers of the conference, the Geospatial World
Forum, describes the Dharnaksh, as a “robust, reliable and people-friendly land
records management system”. The conference which was held in Rotterdam also had
union Communication and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal as one of
the key speakers.
Dharnaksh
enables anyone with a computer and an internet connection to search through all
the land records as well as survey numbers as well as see the property in
question via satellite imagery by just logging in the corresponding property
details.
The
details available online also enables land owners to ensure that the land and
the title deed and survey records has not been surreptitiously transferred by
land sharks.
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