Land record management has been an issue haunting owners for decades as changes in revenue details could push them to a corner. However, the priority of the Jammu and Kashmir administration has fulfilled the long pending demand of proper management of revenue records as the Union Territory government embarked on an ambitious scheme “Aapki Zameen Aapki Nigrani” (AZAN) which extends modern management system of land records besides enhancing transparency in the system. The AZAN initiative is successfully fulfilling its objective of ensuring a transparent, enhanced and modernized land records management system for J&K people who can now access their land records online without any hardship. Previously, the owner had to wander from pillar to post to obtain even a single copy of land record which was a quite cumbersome and hard task but with launch of AZAN now he or she can check land records even while sitting at home. Earlier, there was no such mechanism available for citizens to view or monitor the status of our revenue records online. The J&K government is now issuing trilingual land passbooks as a measure to fill the information vacuum and promote people’s ease of access to revenue records in districts. The Land Records Information System which was launched on October 22, 2021 facilitates easy online access to records thereby reducing manipulation of the records and improving the efficiency of Revenue offices substantially.

As a reform to further boost transparency in public dealings of the Revenue Department, a mechanism of issuing revenue passbooks to the people containing information on all their legal land possessions has evolved and a deadline of 15th August 2022 has been set by the government for completion of the process. Land Records Information System (LRIS) is web-based multi-tiered, scalable, reliable, and secure network enterprise application. The LRIS is Integrated, Geographical Information System (GIS) based decision support system to cater 24/7 services to JakLRMa agency user, state public user, special agency external user for analysis, evaluation and information of revenue records and its ancillary details like Records of Rights, Jamabandi, Girdawari, Mutation and many more. The administrative and functional structure of the society is very comprehensive with inclusion of all covering departments, agencies and office within the UT. The Society is chaired by the Chief Secretary with Financial Commissioner Revenue as the chief executive. As part of the program implementation in UT, 7.70 crore pages of revenue record and 55216 Musavi (maps) have been scanned besides establishment of 3895 Ground Control Points and development of Web-based Enterprise Geo-Information System (GIS