Our Correspondent
Imphal, July 13 (EMN): Manipur becomes the first in the entire north eastern region and third state in the country after Punjab and Andaman and Nicobar Island to have launched the National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS).
Consumers’ affairs and food and public distribution and Revenue Minister Karam Shyam formally launched the NGDRS at New Mini-Secretariat hall of Bishnupur district headquarters, 30 km south of Imphal on Friday.
Deputy Commissioner Pawan Yadav of Bishnupur, State Information Officer Kh Rajen Singh, Secretary Revenue T Ranjit and Deputy Secretary Revenue Y Rajen chaired the dais along with the Minister at the function.
It’s indeed a proud moment for the government for having NGDRS, says Minister Karam Shyam addressing the launching function. With the application of the NGDRS, there will be more accuracy, transparency, sellers and buyers’ facilities in online registration apart from saving time and money.
Today’s global scenario is a digital world where technology is at its highest peak level and the state is developing with speed, he added.
A video-conferencing session with NIC Delhi and Pune was also held simultaneously as part of the NGDRS software launching function for Sub-Registrar, Bishnupur with Director General, National Informatics Centre, Neeta Verma.
We recognise the role of NIC in connection with food security and land records. NGDRS will be rolled out in 6-7 more districts of the state and the government is ready to co-operate with the new initiative to ensure transparency in administration”, he assured.
He also congratulated Bishnupur for achieving 100% computerisation of land records while Imphal West, Imphal East and Thoubal has merely computerised 67%,91% and 64% of the land records.
In her speech, Neeta Verma highlighted that NGDRS is a generic, cloud based system that provides a digital solution for registration of documents and is much simpler, faster, cost-effective apart from saving time. Aimed at ‘One Nation One Software’, it is easy to use as we have to just configure the software with the requirements of the state, she added.
DC Pawan Yadav said the new system helps in modernising and streamlining the Revenue Department by mentioning its advantages. Some features of NGDRS software are e-governance, open source technology & Unicode based multiple local language compliant application.
