Bhoomi : an eConveyancing (Indian) solution for secure land tenure
Rajasekhar, P.V.
The Bhoomi built, operated and owned by the Revenue Department of Government of Karnataka, is an e-Conveyancing system, within a secure extranet, enabling anyone to obtain information on any agricultural land of Karnataka, India through the public kiosks established in all the taluks and other kiosks established in the villages through Public Private Partnership. The Bhoomi system with 20 million RTCs of 6.7 million farmers in 176 taluks within Karnataka state is one of the largest databases of property information in the world. This system works with the software designed fully in-house by the National Informatics Centre, a Department of Government of India. The project was largely funded by Government of India and some critical components of this project were funded by the Government of Karnataka. The services offered through these kiosks are: obtaining copy of Records of Rights, Tenancy and Crops (RTC), Extract of Mutation Register (MR) and carrying out Mutation of Land Records. This report discusses about the various aspects of Bhoomi, such as the work flow in Bhoomi, legality of mutation done in Bhoomi, strategies employed for its implementation, innovations in Bhoomi, lessons learned from Bhoomi and the way forward.
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