A prototype of the National GIS-enabled Land Bank System was e-launched by Commerce and Industry Ministry for six States based on which land can be identified for setting up industries.

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Q.Discuss the benefits of digitizing land records in India.

Land Bank System

• The system has been developed by the Integration of Industrial Information System (IIS) with state GIS (Geographic Information System).
• IIS portal is a GIS-enabled database of industrial clusters/areas across the states.
• On the system, more than 3,300 industrial parks across 31 states/UTs covering about 4,75,000 hectares of land have also been mapped out on the system.
• The information available on the system will include drainage, forest; raw material heat maps (horticulture, agricultural, mineral layers); multilayer of connectivity.
• IIS has adopted a committed approach towards industrial upgrading, resource optimization, and sustainability.

Various stakeholders

• The initiative has been supported by the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), National Centre of Geo-Informatics (NCoG), Invest India, Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG), and Ministry of Electronics and Informational Technology.

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