Bhubaneswar, May 4 -- The Odisha government has constituted a high-level committee to comprehensively review and revise the existing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manuals governing the recording of government and private (raiyati) land in the state.
Additional Chief Secretary of the Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Arabinda Padhee, has directed officials to prepare a revised draft SOP for the process of recording both government-owned and private land.
The current SOP manuals were last published in 1990. In view of significant changes in policies, laws, administrative mechanisms, and procedural frameworks over the past three decades, the government has decided that a thorough revision is now essential.
The committee will ...