Land Titling or Land Reforms: India’s Policy Dilemma

Nayak, Pradeep

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“…In principle, a conclusive title registration system can be established, if a single organization serves as the custodian of land records. The records should be continuously updated in real-time, have a conclusive nature, and include state insurance to address potential errors [23]. For better land tenure security in the country, a centralized land registration and mapping system must be strengthened, as required in the Registration Act of 1908.…”

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“…Bennett et al [18] recommended conducting country-specific assessments utilizing the FELA to tackle the challenges of LASs, and one such study was conducted by Unger et al [19] in Europe and Unger et al [20] in Chad. Pakistan, along with other South Asian countries like Bangladesh and India, faces challenges in establishing a clear, comprehensive, secure, and effective LAS [21][22][23]. The context of land administration and cadastre in Pakistan has been studied by many with a focus on rural areas.…”

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Assessing the Status and Challenges of Urban Land Administration Systems Using Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA): A Case Study in Pakistan

Ahsan

Hussain

Ali

et al. 2023

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The urban land administration system (LAS) of any country serves as a key pillar for good governance, resource planning, service delivery, infrastructure development, and revenue collection. To reform their LASs, countries need a thorough understanding of their existing context and global relevance. The goal of this paper is to examine the status and challenges of urban LASs in Pakistan using the United Nations Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA). The exploratory case study method used in the paper employs a mixed approach, which includes FELA-based questionnaire surveys, group discussions, and desk reviews. A total of 525 urban LAS stakeholders, including owner-buyers, real estate agents, bankers, lawyers, and LAS organizations, participated in the activity. The results show that more than half of the stakeholders are not satisfied with existing urban LASs, their governance and accountability, laws, and policies. Corruption is prevalent mostly in government organizations. Fraud and joint ownership are the most common sources of dispute, with 67 percent of the respondents stating that the cases take more than two years to resolve in court. The financial aspect of urban LASs is suffering due to property undervaluation and low revenue collection. Manual data and record keeping in LASs further complicate the system, with 87 percent of all respondents interested in innovating the urban LAS using modern technologies. Furthermore, 92 percent of all respondents expressed the need to standardize the existing LASs. There is a lack of capacity and skills, and 89 percent of organizations’ respondents believe that human resources skilled in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) can improve the efficiency of urban LASs. There is a lack of partnership among LAS organizations and a gap in the accessibility of LAS-related quality information. The country’s vision of building smart cities can be realized through LAS standardization and 3D and GIS innovation.

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Assessing the Status and Challenges of Urban Land Administration Systems Using Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA): A Case Study in Pakistan

Ahsan

Hussain

Ali

et al. 2023

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“…In the 1990s, the World Bank assisted governments in 11 former Soviet Bloc countries to develop and implement land registration programmes. By 2005, the World Bank was supervising a portfolio of land administration projects worth more than $1 billion (Bell, 2006; see also Nayak, 2020).…”

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“…With the end of official interest in land reforms by the 1980s and the initiation of economic liberalisation policies in the 1990s, the motivation for modernising land records changed qualitatively. In the new era, modernisation of land records came to be linked to assured private property rights and the improvement of business confidence (Nayak, 2020). In 1987, the Planning Commission headed by Manmohan Singh, who inaugurated India's liberalisation programme as Finance Minister in 1991, appointed a one‐man committee headed by D. C. Wadhwa to study the problem (Wadhwa, 1989).…”

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Illegibly legible: Outcomes of a land records modernisation programme in South India

Ramesh

2023

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This article analyses an initiative in 2017 to update and digitise textual land records in Telangana, a south Indian state. Its premise is that experiments to modernise land records have not met with pre‐determined standards of success due, primarily, to the historically evolved contradictions around land as a resource and a commodity. In countries like India, the colonial policies on land and the post‐colonial success of landlords to manipulate land records had already left the post‐War task of ensuring conclusive land titles intractable. In more recent times, however, the agenda of land records modernisation has been absorbed by neoliberalism, which aims to create free land markets and replace traditional subsidies with direct cash transfers. This article shows that, consequently, the task of land records modernisation in Telangana became disembedded from agendas of agrarian egalitarianism and was rendered more complex—historical errors and exclusions were reproduced in new ways; technocratic solutions of the bureaucracy made governmental processes opaque; landed sections continued to subvert implementation; tenants were excluded from the land titles; and there were fears that the scheme would be misused to ease corporate land acquisition. Land records modernisation remains important for agrarian reform, but its success remains contingent on a greater appreciation among policymakers for the historical and political economy aspects of land ownership and possession.

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Land Titling or Land Reforms: India’s Policy Dilemma

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Assessing the Status and Challenges of Urban Land Administration Systems Using Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA): A Case Study in Pakistan

Assessing the Status and Challenges of Urban Land Administration Systems Using Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA): A Case Study in Pakistan

Illegibly legible: Outcomes of a land records modernisation programme in South India

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