Land Records E-Measurement 2.0 System Under Fire in Pune Over Errors and Delays
Pune, 2nd February 2026: The Land Records Department’s e-Measurement 2.0 system, launched to make land measurement faster and more transparent, has instead become a major source of hardship for citizens and farmers due to serious technical and administrative shortcomings.
Despite the government announcing the setting up of help desks, key issues such as overlapping maps and discrepancies in land records remain unresolved. Applicants are facing repeated difficulties at every stage of the online measurement process.
Highlighting these problems, Sudhir Kulkarni of the Civil Rights Committee has submitted a memorandum to Commissioner Dr Suhas Diwase, seeking immediate corrective action to fix the e-Measurement 2.0 system.
According to Kulkarni, the online application requires the latest 7/12 extract, but important historical records such as partition extracts, aakar phod, and official remarks are often unavailable—even in government offices. “If the department itself does not possess these records, citizens cannot be expected to arrange them on their own,” he said, urging the administration to put an alternative mechanism in place.
A lack of clarity on measurement fees is another major concern. The system does not clearly display the exact amount payable while filling the application, nor does it provide automated confirmation of whether the challan payment has been updated. Kulkarni has demanded that the department appoint an authorised agency and fix standard rates to prevent overcharging and financial exploitation.
The memorandum also draws attention to persistent record mismatches, including cases where a single plot has two city survey numbers, Town Planning (TP) scheme records do not match the actual site, or plots visible on the ground do not appear on official maps. These technical errors, Kulkarni said, are causing avoidable harassment to landowners.
He further alleged that delays in updating kajaap records—despite layouts being approved as early as 1966—are being misused by some developers. Open spaces and internal roads in old layouts still appear in the names of original landowners, allowing developers to cancel approved layouts and create problems for plot holders.
Kulkarni has demanded that measurement maps should not be withheld merely on the grounds of “overlapping.” Overlapping entries and dual survey numbers, he said, have made it extremely difficult for citizens to obtain measurement maps. He also questioned when consistency would be ensured between TP scheme records and property cards.
