Land for All, Records for All Lands

“The Revenue Department has made meaningful interventions in the last 10 years with the aim of making all the landless people in the state the owners of land. We have taken unprecedented steps to overcome the crises created by the great floods that devastated Kerala, the survival efforts, and the subsequent Covid pandemic.”
– K Rajan, Minister for Revenue and Housing

The government has made a historic achievement in land title distribution by distributing 4,10,956 land titles, including 1,77,011 titles from 2016 to 2021 and 2,23,945 titles from 2021 to date. The process of distributing 25,000 more land titles is in the final stages.
The Land Title Mission was formed with the aim of making all the landless people in the state landowners. A dashboard has been set up to identify the problems that are hindering the distribution of land titles and to record the number of landless people and land availability in each village.
The government order to issue deeds to those who are in possession of land transferred from forest land to Hillmen settlements without the permission of Union government, will benefit thousands of families. 20,000 title deeds can be distributed in Idukki district, 10,000 in Kottayam district and 7000 in Ernakulam district.
The government has resolved many long standing issues including problems of hundreds of people living in the coastal areas.

• Satram, Eranad, Malappuram – resolved 224 year long dispute
• Kodakkal tile factory, Malappuram – benefited 120 families
• Prakash Plantation, Kasargode – benefited 154 families
• Makkimala, Wayanad – benefited 700 families including scheduled tribes
• Morazha, Kannur – benefited 135 families
• Avanoor, Thrissur – benefiting 23 families
• Perumbavoor, Ernakulam – provided land free of charge to 24 workers of Travancore Rayons
• Kadakampally, Thiruvananthapuram – corrected the mistake in registration of land, benefited 59 families
• Kumaranelloor, Thrissur – provided title deeds to 41 families living in Telugu Unnati for 42 years
• Olakara, Thrissur – provided forest rights deed to 43 tribal families who were evicted 75 years ago for the construction of Peechi dam
• Pampa Valley, Angel Valley, Kottayam – resolved the title deed issues benefiting 1900 people.
• Nochad, Kozhikode – Relief for 60 families

Steps taken to make the tribal community living in the forest area without any rights, the owners of the land and to convert the forest villages into revenue villages by giving them all kinds of revenue rights.
Empowered the district collectors to grant status certificates to those who have lost the original copy of the title deed issued under various land laws in the state
600 villages converted into smart offices and about 300 offices in various stages of construction.
Keeping in mind the housing needs of the people, earnest efforts have been made to find solutions to applications for land conversion up to 25 cents, without compromising the essence of the Paddy Field Wetland Conservation Act. In order to take timely action, 990 posts were temporarily created in addition to the Special Cell and Rs 60 crore was allocated.

Technology driven Services
• All revenue offices in the state converted to the e-office system.
• More than 10 lakh certificates distributed through the e-district portal.
• Mobile application to pay land tax
• Online alert system to inform the authorities about illegal logging, illegal mineral mining and illegal sand mining on government land
• Online HRMS for employee transfer
• Now possible to download Property Record Number and location sketch with digital signature in villages that have been digitally surveyed
• Digitisation of BTR and Property Record Number Register of 1666 villages in the state completed.
• Launched Mitram portal to enable expatriates from 10 foreign countries to access revenue services
• Launched website that includes revenue services of all village offices

Digital Survey
The digital survey being conducted in the state under the leadership of the Survey and Land Records Department is progressing rapidly. The GIS-based Digital Land Survey was launched in November 2022 to accurately measure the land in the state and digitally store land records.
A comprehensive portal called Ente Bhoomi was developed for the transparency of the project. The project is being implemented at a cost of Rs. 858 crore under the Rebuild Kerala Initiative.
The survey, which was conducted in three phases, has already digitally measured 9,21,260.5 hectares of land. Through this, 67,48,559 land parcels have been measured. This is more than one-third of the revenue land in Kerala. The target is to complete the measurement of 10 lakh hectares of land by March.

• 639 villages – Survey activities undertaken in three phases
• 560 villages – Digital survey started
• 363 villages – Survey procedures completed and notifications under Section 9(2) of the Survey Boundary Act published
• 123 villages – After resolving complaints and objections, 13 notifications published and the documents handed over to the Revenue Administration
• 240 villages – Preparations underway to issue 13 notifications

Showcasing Digital Survey

The National Digital Survey Conclave held in Thiruvananthapuram, based on the theme of Digital Land Survey Innovation Integration and Impact, has drawn praise from various states for the progress made by Kerala in the field of survey.
A Survey Museum is being built in Thiruvananthapuram, showcasing the history of Kerala’s land survey and land record management.

Housing Department

• Aaswas Rental House project – Built for the bystanders of patients of medical colleges; in the first phase built houses adjacent to Thrissur and Alappuzha Medical Colleges
• Grihasree project – Houses for the homeless, completed around 4000 houses
• Elderly Friendly Homes – envisaged for the mental health of the elderly
• MN NavaYuga project – For those not included in the MN Suvarna project
• Tanteyidam project – Implemented by the Housing Board in collaboration with the Women and Child Welfare Department
• Marine Ecocity – Constructed at Marine Drive in Kochi.
• Self-sufficient sustainable housing project in Kattakada, Thiruvananthapuram
• National Housing Park project in Vazhamuttam, Thiruvananthapuram
• Amaze-28, Kerala’s first 3D-printed building, built by Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra in collaboration with Tvasta, a startup
• Kesnik Building Technology Innovation and Exhibition Centre
• Mobile testing lab to test the quality of construction materials