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.