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The Karnataka High Court ordered the State Government to create a central integrated geo-space platform combining data on all types of land, including the unique identification number of ground land (Ulpin) or Bhu-Aadhaar and digitized data on the forests of all forest lands together with their boundaries.
The Court also ordered the establishment of a cell to resolve disputes over the interdepartmental land (IDDRC), directly working under the supervision of the main secretary and including representatives from the departments of income, forest, urban planning authorities.
Automatic conflict alerts
The central platform should have an automated system to streamline all land -related applications to ensure that no land -related measures are taken without compulsory verification in real time compared to a unified land database. For example, the court said that representatives of the commissioners or planning bodies would have to be legally forbidden to process any transformation or request for a penalty until the automated system carries out control against the integrated forest map.
If the land falls within the forest boundary, the system must automatically reject the application and generate “conflict alerts” for all departments concerned and the Subregistrars Office should obtain notifications to prevent any sales list.
The online portal for approval of the building plan would also be required to be integrated into this system to automatically verify that the land is legally transferred and without disputes, the court said.
Devanahalli land
Justice Suraj Govindaraj has issued a number of instructions in dispute resolution of a country that are in Devanahali Taluk from Bengalur, because the forest department issued a announcement of Mohammed Shaib and other landowners who have already created the layout by ensuring the approval of the statue from Bangalore the International Planning Office. These countries have changed the hands of several private individuals between the 30s and 70s of the 20th century.
The court said the state forest department must prepare forest maps using high -resolution satellite images from agencies such as Forest Survey of India and Indian Space Research, and integrate Ulpin maps.
Mobile app for the public
Using data from this central platform, a portal and a mobile application should be created for the public to obtain comprehensive colors of coded reports on classification of land use, ownership history (mutation records), litigation details, load, warnings if the land falls within the forest or reserved for public purposes or other identifiable data.
“This transparency mechanism of providing access to the public would serve as a strong deterrent means of fraud, allowing citizens to perform their own diligence and effectively act as” alerting of fraud “for every future buyer,” the court said.
The court ordered the government to set up a high -level committee (HLC), which includes officers from the main secretary office to carry out these instructions a gradual way extended for two years.
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Published – August 20, 2025 9:42
