Srinagar, Sep 25, Sept. 26 -- The Government has said that the conventional settlement operations in J&K were closed in 2014, with the focus thereafter shifting towards maintenance, updating, computerisation and digitisation of land records. The information was given by the Revenue Department in a written reply to Starred Question raised by MLA Waheed-ur-Rehman Para in the Legislative Assembly.The government said settlement operations undertaken from the 1990s onwards focused on re-survey, updating and correction of land records necessitated by changes in land use, ownership and ageing of earlier settlement records.According to the district-wise details furnished by the department, J&K has 6,855 villages, of which settlement has been comp...