Abstract
This paper proposes a comprehensive and practical approach to implement a land administration act in Sri Lanka followed by setting up a Land Administration Commission (LAC), which is a separate entity to maintain a Land Administration Database Management System in support of the land information collected and maintained by stakeholders who deal with matters related to land and its decision-making under e-governance concept. Also, It describes the operations of the four core functions: land tenure, land valuation, land use, and land development in land administration under a single sustainable national land policy, underpinned by spatial information under the e-Governance mechanism. Further, the paper identifies the stakeholders and their main responsibilities in each of the four core functions with the current issues in sharing information across stakeholders. Finally, the paper describes setting up a Land administration entity thereby empowering the LAC and introduces spatial information layers at different resolution levels in a centralized land administration spatial database to keep track of all land transactions carried out by each stakeholder. This approach will enable the top-level decision-making authority (the central level) to manage all land-related activities under one platform to contribute towards the sustainable land development of the country. It is proposed to implement this approach as a pilot activity in the district of Colombo and expand it in the entire country gradually with its output.
Highlights
This paper proposes a comprehensive and practical approach to implement a land administration act in Sri Lanka followed by setting up a Land Administration Commission (LAC), which is a separate entity to maintain a Land Administration Database Management System in support of the land information collected and maintained by stakeholders who deal with matters related to land and its decision-making under e-governance concept
C) Basic land information attributes such as ownership details, Grama Niladhari Divisions (GNDs) Name, and Division, Survey Plan Details with extent, deed/title number and date including the name of Notary/Registrar, Assessment No with Assessment Tax details, Land use and information on any encumbrances such as lease/mortgage will have to be captured and tagged with the PRIDN of the parcel spatially represented by a Point, using a hand-held Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) at Divisional Secretariat Division (DSD) Level with the assistance of Grama Niladharis and Adjudication Officers employed from the Land Settlement Department
There are three steps involved in this phase; 1) automatic population of the Land Administration Federated Database (LAFDB), once softcopy plans of private lands are approved by the local authorities; 2) incorporating existing parcel-based land information available in digital with the Survey Department of Sri Lanka, and 3) digitizing parcel sketches at GND level with the help of base imagery in office at the LAC
Summary
The operations of the four core functions: land tenure, land valuation, land use, and land development are the key in land administration and should be driven by a single sustainable land policy, underpinned by spatial information. Facilitating an e-governance platform would allow the operations of the four above-mentioned core functions to interact with each other to realize a spatially enabled land management paradigm. It would safeguard the availability and access to land information and services, enabling land transactions between parties and participation of stakehold-.
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