The Times of India             28.08.2012

KOZHIKODE: City corporation will upgrade the register of property owned by the civic body soon. The local self government department has issued an order on August 6, directing all local self-government bodies in the state to prepare a detailed register of land owned by the respective LSG bodies.

The register prepared by the local self-government bodies in 2005-2006 was digitalized by the Information Kerala Mission using sanchitha software. The government has issued the new GO after finding many anomalies in the register. The government has asked the LSG bodies to submit the details to the Information Kerala Mission (IKM) by the end of October this year for the state level compilation of the data after rectifying all the anomalies. The register will be having information such as length of roads, number of buildings in the corporation limit, extend of buildings and land, survey number and type of plots, the year of property purchased and the amount spent to purchase the land. It will also categorize the property owned by the civic body such as commercial plots, industrial plots, market, hospitals, agriculture and education.

Kozhikode corporation engineer P Gopalakirshnan said the register of property owned by the city corporation has already been made. "We need to upgrade it adding the information on the three grama panchayats, which was merged with the corporation and make validation of the property," he said.