Prelims – 9th Nov 23
Bastille Day
- Recently Prime Minister of India attended Bastille Day Parade as a Guest of Honour in France.
- July 14 marks the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison on 14th July 1789, which marks the beginning of the French Revolution (FR).
- Bastille was a 14th-century fortress prison in Paris that was hated by all because it stood for the despotic power of the king.
Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP 2008)
- Ministry of Rural Development
- Formed by merger of two centrally sponsored schemes namely: Computerization of Land Records (CLR), Strengthening of Revenue Administration and Updating of Land Records (SRA&ULR)
- It has 3 components: Computerization of land record, Survey/re-survey & Computerization of Registration
- The State Governments/UT Administrations will implement it with financial and technical supports from the Dept. of Land Resources
- The scheme has now been extended till 2023-24
- In India, Computerization of Land Records (Record of rights) has been completed in 94% of villages.
Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) Scheme or Bhu Aadhar
- Launched last year by Department of Land Resources
- Centre plans to issue a 14-digit identification number to every plot of land in the country within a year.
- It will subsequently integrate its land records database with revenue court records and bank records, as well as Aadhaar numbers on a voluntary basis.
- This is the next step in the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP), which began in 2008.
Bhoomi Samman Award 2023
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