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Bhoomi Bhoomi-Online delivery of land records in Karnataka
Bhoomi
Bhoomi-Online delivery of land records in Karnataka
Bhoomi
The project happened in KarnatakaProject coverage
7 million farmers: 35 million beneficiaries
20 million land records (0.6 hectare average size of holding)
177 project locations serving farmers from 27000 villages
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0.2 mn sq kmsBangalore
Bhoomi
Its all about agricultural land record reformsData in land records• Demographic data, Economic data, Legal rights• 47 information ‘fields’ – owners, tenants, crops, yield,
irrigation sources, mortgage details, soil, bank loans etc
Critical to farmers• Basis for ownership & loan
Instrument of social justice• Poor records lead to litigation & social unrest• Ensure government gets its due returns
Critical for economic growth
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The manual system had infirmitiesOpaque system - not ‘out there’ in public domain
Incidence of manipulation of records
Farmers’ dependence on village accountants• Discretionary treatment • Scope for citizen harassment
Ill suited for civic needs• Cumbersome mutation (change in title) process• Not updated regularly• Desired information not readily available
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The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism to access and update land records
using state of art technology
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Farmers availing services
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Farmers availing services
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Land records : Then & Now
Low visibility
Cumbersome
Harassment
Computerised
Transparency
Up to date
Easy access
Manual records
Citizen friendly
Dated records
Tamper Prone Secured
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The path traversed-amazing numbersData entry• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation and
validation process• Implementation at 27 locations simultaneously• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200 operators• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials
Bhoomi software & Training• Requirement specification through 16 workshops-participatory
development• 250 man-months development effort• Development in local language• 700 + village officials trained • Continuous training on for over a year
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Data entry and verification process
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Transparency ensures social equity
Status of mutation request available to farmers from kiosksRight to information to citizens under Bhoomi
Age wise pendingrecord status
Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI
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Transparency ensures social equityGone are the days when Village Accountants would be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations
First in first out mutations in BhoomiNo more discretion to favor influential people
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No more monopolyLaw has been amended to provide for alternate authority for approval of mutation in case of delay of 15 days after the statutory inquiry period of 30 days• Manual system provided unlimited monopoly powers to
Revenue Inspector
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Multiple stakeholders benefit
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• Banks• Judiciary• Private firms
• Easy implementation• Manpower redeployment• Planning inputs
• Protect govt. land• Citizen friendly
• Quick, harassment free• Records tamper proof• Simple mutation process• Easier farm credit• Less litigation
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Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives40 million copies have been provided from the Bhoomi kiosks
Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold
Land based litigation down
Private bodies & elected representatives have contributed towards kiosks, PCs
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What has Bhoomi achievedHandwritten records fully substituted by computerised records-a legal framework in place
Imposition of user charges with better delivery of services makescheme viable and sustainable- Collection of Rs 15 million per month as against total expenditure of Rs 180 million on project• Till date Rs 600 million user charges collected
Land records in public domain• No application, no identity requirements
Mutation requests acknowledged & tracked
Biometrics authentication- Non repudiation feature
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What Bhoomi has achievedState data centre established centralising 20 million recordsVSAT network connecting all 202 locations of BHOOMIElectronic integration of BHOOMI with KAVERI (Registration project) in placeSurvey process now being integrated into Bhoomi• Integerated Mutation
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Bio-metric device
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Simple authentication
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Biometrics rejects hackers
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Lessons to LearnE-governance scheme should provide no scope of repudiation of actions• Biometrics authentication- Non repudiation feature
Kill all alternatives ( old systems) to the scheme• Handwritten records fully substituted by computerised
records- a legal framework in place
Self sustainability of scheme is essentialExisting bureaucracy is competent to execute big e-governance projects
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Next steps in BhoomiUse Hand held devices like Simputer for online data capture• Avoid drudgery of current manual crop collection and batch
updation
Offloading distribution of records to privates sector• By providing connectivity to Bhoomi data base• 800 rural telecentres coming up starting next month
Providing value added services to farmers from rural telecentres• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info
Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost basis
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Next steps in BhoomiPersonalising Bhoomi for every farmer• Concept of mypage.com• To create personalised information for every farmer
depending upon factors like extent of land, irrigation sources, crops grown etc
• To provide information like the fertiliser he needs for the land
• The crop he should grow
Evolving Urban Bhoomi• Scheme is being extended to urban municipalities
And eventually graduating to Torrens system( State to guarantee land title on the basis of entries in records)
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Efforts towards Replication
Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for replication in all stated by MIT GOI and has provided an initial funds of Rs 300 million for this replicationVisitors from almost all states of the country have visited and studied BhoomiVisitors from many other countries have shown interest in collaboration
Detailed study of Bhoomi by World Bank made available on its website for facilitating replication. (www.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov)
World Bank and Ford foundation have got done an independent evaluation of the BHOOMI project
Apart fromwinning silver in CAPAM, Bhoomi was one of the finalist in Stockholm challenge award 2002 and TechMuseum innovation award CaliforniaAnd now UN Public service award
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Thank You
Rajeev ChawlaSecretary e-Governance DPAR (AR)
and Special Secretary (Bhoomi)Revenue Department
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:[email protected]
Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in
