Land record computerization is one of the earliest e-governance projects initiated in India and a majority of states have reached a stage wherein they could capture mutation details as a part of automation process and provide Record of Rights (RoR) to a common man in service mode. However, it is difficult to achieve interoperation among these state-wise databases since they evolved at different points of the space–time continuum.
The country has disparate land records system in various states; there was a need for convergence to make the land records data interoperable. However, as there was no platform, the Department of Land Resources (DoLR) requested to National Informatics Centre (NIC) to study and suggest a methodology for attaining convergence without disturbing the existing land record data collected from the States/Union Territories (UTs). The DoLR identified 15 parameters for standardization at the national level. Interoperability may facilitate multipurpose information and knowledge exchange with other national level databases. This will lead to a data repository that can be used by various agencies of the government for planning purposes. The article presents a strategy to ensure interoperability among them without disturbing their autonomy of process and structural design by suggesting a transformation approach.