Land Record Management using Hyperledger Fabric and IPFS
Himani Mukne, Prathamesh Pai, Saish Raut, Dayanand D. Ambawade · 2019
Status quo, the process of maintaining land ownership records employed by many countries is archaic, providing scope for fraudulence, tampering and/or misrepresentation of data, with little to no accountability for ensuring the authenticity of the managed records. This inefficiency and lack of transparency in the system can heavily exploited by the malicious middlemen with questionable intent, entrusted with the task of maintaining the records. The paper aims at introducing transparency, especially in the realm of land acquisition and ownership record management, by ensuring that each transaction is validated by all involved parties. It removes the scope for fraudulence by creating an immutable history of records, which is permanently linked to the system, thereby streamlining documentation and record-keeping. A peer-to-peer tamper-proof and forge-proof network is leveraged for this purpose, using a permissioned Blockchain such as Hyperledger Fabric. The system is interfaced with Interplanetary File System for secure documentation record management.