Manipur becomes 3rd State in country to launch NGDRS
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR
Bishnupur, July 13 2018:
CAF & PD, Revenue Minister Karam Shyam has conveyed that, with the application of National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS), factors like accuracy, transparency, sellers & buyers' facilities in online registration apart from saving time and money.
"It is indeed a proud moment for the Govt that the District Administration Bishnupur is launching the NGDRS for the first time in the State and the 3rd in the country after Punjab and Andaman & Nicobar Island", he stated.
Today's global scenario is digital where technology is at it's highest peak and the State is developing with speed, he expressed while attending the launching function of the National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS) at New Mini-Secretariat, Bishnupur today as chief Guest.
A video conference session with NIC Delhi and Pune was also held simultaneously as part of the NGDRS software launching function for Sub-Registrar, Bishnupur with Director General, NIC, Neeta Verma as the guest of honour.
The function was organised by District Administration Bishnupur in collaboration with NIC Manipur.
Deputy Commissioner Bishnupur, Pawan Yadav, State Information Officer, Kh Raj en Singh, Secretary Revenue, T Ranjit and Deputy Secretary Revenue, Y Rajen chaired the dais along with the Minister at the function.
Drawing attention on the misconception of the public that the Revenue Department is not transparent, Minister Karam Shyam said that with NGDRS, there will be facility for blocking registration and mutation/partition with wrong land records.
"We recognize the role of NIC in connection with food security and land records.
NGDRS will be rolled out in six to seven more districts in the State and the Government is ready to cooperate with the new initiative so as to ensure transparency in the administration", he assured.
He also congratulated Bishnupur for achieving 100% computerization of land records while Imphal West, Imphal East and Thoubal has merely computerised 67%, 91% & 64% of the land records respectively.
While briefing the gathering via video-conference, Neeta Verma highlighted that NGDRS is a generic, cloud based system that provides a digital solution for registration of documents and is much simpler, faster, cost-effective.
Aimed at 'One Nation One Software', it is easy to use as we have to just configure the software with the requirements of the State, she added.
DC Pawan Yadav stated that the new system helps in modernizing and streamlining the Revenue Department.
Some features of NGDRS software are e-governance, open source technology & Unicode based multiple local language compliant application.
H Komol Singh of ward no 8 and T Bidyarani of ward no 7 of the district were awarded certificates for using the document registration system.