PATNA: The revenue and land reforms department is all set to make well-equipped land record rooms-cum-data centres operational at block level by the end of this month. At least 16 kinds of services related to land records can be availed at a minimal rate from these centres.State revenue and land reforms department minister Ram Surat Kumar said infrastructural facilities have already been made available to 102 of the 534 blocks in the state for the purpose.“The department is planning to make these data centres operational by the end of this month. The facility will be extended to the remaining blocks in due course. Funds have been allotted to over 450 blocks,” he told this newspaper on the sidelines of a review meeting with officers of the department.The services to be availed from those modernized records room-cum-data centres include certified copies of jamabandi, khatian, registered deeds, maps and khairat besides other land certificates. At present the jamabandi and other related records are available either in the district collectors’ offices or officers of the sub-registrars.The minister said the department is also gearing up to provide authentic information about 2 lakh water bodies in the state. For this purpose, an atlas of the water bodies is being prepared. “Bihar will be the first in India and second after the USA if the task of preparing atlas of the state’s water bodies is accomplished,” he said.In addition, the department has also decided to provide the facility of e-measurement of land. Under the scheme, the application for measurement/demarcation of land will be received online.