Draft operational guidelines of digital india land records modernization programme (dilrmp) introduction

19.3 Monitoring and Review at the National Level:
At the national level, for sanctioning of projects and monitoring and reviewing of the programme, a Project Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (PS&MC) has been set up under the Chairpersonship of the Secretary, Department of Land resources. The Committee will monitor and review progress of the DILRMP work in the country. Area Officers / Officers from the Department of Land Resources would also be visiting the States/UTs to review the implementation of the Programme.
20. Evaluation of the Programme
20.1 To get the impact assessment and feedback about the actual implementation of the Programme at field level, the DoLR will get the concurrent and terminal evaluation of the Programme carried out through reputed organizations such as the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), the National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), State Administrative Training Institutes (ATIs), etc. The States/UTs are also advised to carry out concurrent evaluation and impact assessment through in-house teams/experts to assess the on-site progress vis-à-vis deliverables of the sanctioned projects and suggest the measures for improving the system. These concurrent evaluation results must be intimated to the DoLR for obtaining the second installment of Central funding.
20.2 Since land record procedures and systems are different in different States, a baseline survey on the current status of the States and their requirements under the sanctioned components of the programme along with evaluation of the work already undertaken so far is required to be completed within the financial year 2018-19. Due to rapid change in space technology and sophistication in the measurement process, DoLR will firm up technology related guidelines with sufficient flexibility for the State Government to execute the programme as per their contextual need.
20.3 DoLR will take appropriate action for conducting third party independent evaluation of the scheme and rationalization / restructuring of the scheme accordingly for achieving the desired results and also to take appropriate action to reduce unspent balances.
While undertaking the third party independent evaluation of the progress of the scheme so far, the baseline survey may also be conducted to ascertain the current status of the States/UTs on each component of DILRMP and the further need and requirements. The expenses on this count may be borne from the head “Evaluation Studies”, IEC and Training.
States /UTs are free to add any additional components in terms of their contextual needs on the basis of such data being available (or already available) from their own resources and converge the same with DILRMP.