The revenue department of the Maharashtra government claimed to have succeeded in standardising the land records system and making these documents error-free by bringing in uniformity in the terminology used differently in different regions of the state.

In the pre-Independence era, different regions of Maharashtra were controlled by separate regimes, which had their own land record systems and styles. Even the words used for describing the land ownership, shared ownership and categorisation of land as per its location or use - were significantly different.