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Students get paid, gain experience
The students of the Government Polytechnic College, Srikakulam, are undertaking a novel assignment by digitising revenue records. With this project, they are acquiring hands-on experience on land records besides earning enough to meet their monthly expenses.
Digitisation of land records
Srikakulam: The students of the Government Polytechnic College, Srikakulam, are undertaking a novel assignment by digitising revenue records. With this project, they are acquiring hands-on experience on land records besides earning enough to meet their monthly expenses.
As part of the Web Land project, the State government has decided to digitise all revenue records like adangal, records of rights (ROR), pattadar pass books, field measurement books (FMBs) among others across the State.
AP State Space Application Centre (APSAC) and Planning departments are jointly supervising the digitisation of land records across the state, as part of the Digital India initiative.
To complete the work, the Revenue Department in Srikakulam district had handed over it to the Government Polytechnic College students. Students of the college have been instructed to complete the work within nine months. The work began on June 1 and is set to completed by March 2017.
A total of 60 students have been entrusted with the responsibility. They were initially trained for 15 days on survey of lands, land management and civil engineering. Each student is being paid Rs 12,000 monthly as remuneration, which helps them meet their expenditure.
Students have already started digitisation of 2, 40, 540 FMBs relating to 1,863 revenue villages under 38 mandals across the district. It is envisaged that the digitisation project would curtail irregularities with regard to land measurements, survey numbers, maps, and boundaries. Registration of lands with fake survey numbers, by changing survey numbers and changing of boundaries can be prevented.
“Digitisation of land records is government’s priority programme, and we have handed it over to polytechnic students to complete it quickly,” explained Joint Collector Vivek Yadav.
“The assignment is an opportunity for our students as they are acquiring good skills, work experience, and understanding land records. This will help them with better placements, “college principal S Trinadha Rao said.
“We are gaining knowledge on CAD-2D software, understanding about FMBs, survey numbers and land measurements. I am very hopeful that this will help us in securing a job easily in future,” said students of the college V Gopal, Sai Gowthami and V Laxmi.
By Chowdari Lakshmana Rao
