Srinagar: Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, Arun Kumar Mehta on Thursday said that by the end of September all land owners will get digital land passbooks in the Union Territory.
A land passbook is a digitized statement of revenue record of a land owner in Jammu and Kashmir which provides information on the record of land owned by a person including the details of purchasing and buying new land.
An updated record entry will be present of the land holding of every Land Passbook in JK and it will have a unique QR code on it, which will enable any institution or individual to scan and verify the authenticity of the land record as also the credential of the landholder
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, Kumar said that the land passbooks will be issued in three different languages including Hindi, English, and Kashmiri.
He said that this will be for the first time that land passbooks will be issued in the local language, which people can understand.
“This has never happened before," he added.
(KNO)
