Indian town adopts Avalanche blockchain for tamper-proof land records

The territory medication for a municipality successful India has digitized each onshore records dating backmost to the 1950s and stored them connected the Avalanche blockchain successful a determination toward transparent, tamper-proof onshore governance.

On March 6, the Dantewada District Administration of Chhattisgarh, India, announced that it had digitized implicit 700,000 onshore records via the Office of Land Records. The digitized records were secured connected the Avalanche blockchain successful collaboration with Indian blockchain startup LegitDoc by Zupple Labs. 

Indian Administrative Service (IAS) serviceman Mayank Chaturvedi, who is the territory collector of Dantewada, highlighted the value of the initiative:

“For decades, our citizens faced important delays successful accessing their onshore records, with verification sometimes taking weeks. By digitizing these records and securing them connected blockchain, we person ensured they are easy accessible and cannot beryllium tampered with.”

As portion of the initiative, the authorities has installed kiosks successful each sub-district of the town, wherever citizens and authorities officers tin entree onshore information. To guarantee the privateness of delicate information, anterior authorization is required for the application.

Speaking to Cointelegraph, LegitDoc CEO Neil Martis said, “The exertion is simply a permissioned exertion wherein records tin beryllium accessed via Tehsil level (sub-district administration) gross officers.”

The blockchain-based onshore records exertion allows the serviceman successful complaint to hunt for onshore properties and download and presumption the digitized records connected the blockchain. 

As a result, respective types of authorities records, specified arsenic B-1 forms (elevator installation), records of rights, crippled registers, ownership records and cadastral maps, tin beryllium viewed and verified implicit the blockchain.

Blockchain verification of onshore records. Source: Office of Land Records portal

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The serviceman tin besides verify the astute contracts linked to the integer documents implicit the Avalanche Explorer, ensuring tamper-proof grounds keeping. 

Blockchain verification of onshore records. Source: Office of Land Records portal

Cointelegraph was fixed exclusive entree to a nationalist blockchain-based explorer, which showed an unfastened overview of onchain data, astute contracts and onchain enactment related to the Dantewada application. 

Overview of Avalanche astute contracts for onshore records. Source: Avalanche Explorer

Devika Mittal, Avalanche India maturation consultant, told Cointelegraph:

“Avalanche is honored to enactment the Office of Land Records, Dantewada successful this revolutionary measurement providing spot and transparency astatine standard to Lakhs of citizens. Blockchain is the mode guardant for onshore grounds digitization, and Chhattisgarh is astatine the forefront.”

In summation to eradicating manual searching of onshore records, the tribal communities and farmers successful the portion are capable to unafraid ownership records and trim disputes. 

LegitDoc has antecedently helped assorted Indian state-level blockchain initiatives involving the issuance and verification of caste certificates, diploma certificates and skill certificates, among others.

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