All about Delhi’s e-Dharti portal

With an aim to provide information about over 60,000 properties in India, the government, in 2020, launched the e-Dharti Geo Portal. In this article, discussed in detail are the various aspects of the e-Dharti Geo Portal.

E-Dharti Geo Portal launch

On October 21, 2020, housing minister Hardeep Singh Puri launched the e-Dharti Geo Portal, with the aim to ‘integrate legacy drawings like maps and lease plans in the management information system and to make it GIS-enabled (geographic information system-enabled)’.

The e Dharti 1.0 portal is established under the central government’s Land & Development Office (L&DO), which has nearly 60,000 commercial, residential, industrial and institutional properties under its purview. The L&DO, as part of its initiative to bring about transparency, cut down the time taken to provide services and reduce human intervention, has started to accept online applications, for granting permissions for substitution, mutation, conversion, gift, sale and mortgages.

The e-Dharti Geo Portal will help in updating the records of the centre’s land-owning agency, while providing all property-related details to owners digitally, besides bringing about transparency and predictability in property transactions.

“The power of technology is immense and there is no reason that India, which has formidable capacity in software technologies, cannot harness this strength to our advantage,” Puri said, at the time of the launch.

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E-Dharti Geo Portal: Available information

Through the e-Dharti Geo Portal, the L&DO will provide property certificates, which will carry details such as land / property type, date of allotment, status of the property, sub-type, area of the plot, date of execution of lease deed, address of the property, details about present lessee, litigation status and cadastral maps. This certificate will enable the lessee of the property to get the basic details of the property, along with a map, showing its exact location.

The digital access to such information will also enable prospective buyers and investors to ascertain the details pertaining to the property, as well as any proceedings or suit that may be pending with respect to the property. Consequently, instances of property-related frauds would decline significantly.

This application will also help the government to know the actual status of its vacant properties.

Fee to get property certificate from e-Dhati Geo Portal

On the e-Dharti website, one can search for details of a property, by either providing the locality and block names or the property ID.

The property certificate can be obtained by visiting the L&DO website, www.ldo.gov.in and it is available at a nominal fee of Rs 1,000.

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How to view property reports on e-Dharti portal?

Users can view land and property reports, along with payment and monitoring reports, on this website. To get these reports, click here.

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