Chandigarh, December 31, 2025:In a landmark step towards transforming land governance in India, the Land Stack Project Portal was formally launched today in a hybrid mode. The portal was inaugurated by Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Hon’ble Minister of State for Rural Development and Communications, Government of India, from New Delhi. The launch event was graced by senior dignitaries, including Shri Manoj Joshi, Secretary, Department of Land Resources (DoLR); Shri S. Chockalingam, IAS, Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra and Chairman, Land Stack Committee; and Shri Kunal Satyarthi, Joint Secretary, DoLR, Ministry of Rural Development, along with other senior officials.

From Chandigarh, the portal was formally launched by Shri H. Rajesh Prasad, IAS, Chief Secretary, Chandigarh Administration, in the presence of Shri Mandip Singh Brar, IAS, Home Secretary; Shri Nishant Kumar Yadav, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh; Shri Amandeep Singh Bhatti, PCS, Additional Deputy Commissioner; Dr. Inderjeet, HCS, Joint Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, Shri Vivek Verma, State Informatics Officer, NIC Chandigarh and officers from various stakeholder departments.

The Land Stack Project is a first-of-its-kind national digital land governance initiative, piloted in Chandigarh and Tamil Nadu, and this event marked the formal launch of the dedicated portals for both the Union Territory of Chandigarh and the State of Tamil Nadu.

During the launch, the Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh, presented a detailed walkthrough of the Chandigarh Land Stack Portal, elaborating on its architecture, scope and real-time functionalities. The portal integrates property and parcel-level land information on a GIS-based digital platform, enabling users to access comprehensive land-related data through a single interface.

The portal provides property details, ownership information, deed records, encumbrance details and litigation status for each individual land parcel. Importantly, the platform covers not only the planned urban sectors but also areas historically designated as villages within Chandigarh, offering access to Hadbast, Khewat, Mustil and Khasra numbers, thereby bridging rural and urban land records on one common digital platform.

The overarching objective of the Land Stack Portal is to establish a citizen-centric land information ecosystem that allows easy property search and seamless access to critical land data, significantly improving transparency, streamlining service delivery and reducing dependency on physical visits to government offices through consolidation of land records from multiple departments into one unified platform.

Appreciating the efforts of the Chandigarh Administration, Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani commended the team for developing the portal within a short span of six months and highlighted that the Land Stack Portal is scalable, interoperable and future-ready. He stated that the portal is designed to integrate with national digital platforms and upcoming datasets, including utilities and advanced technologies, and emphasized that the Chandigarh and Tamil Nadu portals will serve as reference models for other States and Union Territories across India.

With this launch, Chandigarh positions itself at the forefront of digital land governance, laying a strong foundation for transparent, efficient and citizen-focused land administration in India.