Guidelines for Staff on Updating Data in the Registry (UDR Scheme)
The Tamil Nadu Government issued Guidelines for Staff on Updating Data in the Registry (UDR Scheme) to guide survey and revenue staff in updating land ownership records, measuring subdivisions, separating joint pattas and preparing accurate maps and records. The document also contains additions and corrections to earlier staff instructions, but the supplied text does not state a department, government order number or issue date.
What the guidelines cover
The Guidelines for Staff on Updating Data in the Registry (UDR Scheme) explain how Tamil Nadu survey and revenue staff should carry out the Updating Data in the Registry Scheme. The scheme was created because older village accounts, settlement registers, chitta and field measurement records often did not reflect later inheritance, sale, gift, exchange and partition transactions.
The guidance was compiled for newly appointed surveyors, survey officers, inspectors, special tahsildars and supervising officers. It also assigns responsibility for complete and accurate work to the scheme's administrative and controlling officers.
How landowners may be affected
The Updating Data in the Registry Scheme is intended mainly to help farmers and landowners establish what land they hold and how it is recorded. Its stated functions and benefits include:
- Measuring land subdivisions and defining each owner's boundaries.
- Separating joint pattas into individual pattas without requiring a request from the pattadars.
- Recording owners' names in village accounts such as the chitta.
- Giving each landowner a patta and a map of the relevant field.
- Making it easier to produce land records for bank or cooperative bank loans.
- Clarifying individual land tax liability and ownership shares.
- Helping landowners seek electricity connections for wells without obtaining consent from every joint pattadar where an individual patta exists.
- Identifying government land boundaries, encroachments and benami land.
- Helping identify small farmers who may qualify for government concessions and grants.
Village residents are to be informed by public announcement, gathered together, told about the scheme and asked to provide correct information and cooperate with survey staff.
Corrections and detailed instructions
The Guidelines for Staff on Updating Data in the Registry (UDR Scheme) add that the A register and chitta should be prepared afresh when required corrections exceed 50 per cent of the existing entries, subject to a separate order from the district unit's Assistant Director or Deputy Director.
In grama natham fields, important landmarks such as temples, schools and ponds must be located, measured sufficiently and shown in field records and the village map. Boundary measurements are not required for individual houses.
Orders issued by a Special Tahsildar must clearly state the case details and reasons for the decision. Because such orders can be appealed, they must also identify the appellate authority and the time allowed for appeal. Maps must mark in green the boundary stones maintained by the pattadar and state that the landowner is responsible for maintaining them.
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Common questions
Do I have to apply for a patta transfer under the UDR Scheme?
The document says patta changes may be made without an application. It also says joint pattas are to be separated into individual pattas without a request from the pattadars.
Will I receive a map of my land under the UDR Scheme?
The scheme provides for each landowner to receive a patta and a map of the owner's field after subdivisions and boundaries are addressed.
Can an individual patta help me obtain a bank loan or electricity connection for a well?
The document says an individual patta can make a land based loan easier to obtain. It also says an electricity connection for a well is easier where the land has an individual patta, while joint patta land may require consent from all joint pattadars.
Are individual houses in grama natham fields measured under these instructions?
The document says important landmarks in grama natham fields must be located and shown in the records, but boundary measurements are not required for individual houses.
