Lok Sabha Question No. 3863 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-03
Subject: Bhoomi Rashi Portal
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI, RAMDAS CHANDRABHANJI TADAS, BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO, SUMEDHANAND SARASWATI, NARANBHAI KACHHADIA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3863

ANSWERED ON 3 RD  JANUARY, 2019

## BHOOMI RASHI PORTAL

3863.   SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI: SHRI RAMDAS C. TADAS: SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO: SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARSWATI: SHRI NARANBHAI KACHHADIYA:

## Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS सड़क परिवहन औि िाजमार्ग मंत्री

be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  the  Ministry  has  recently  launched  the  Bhoomi  Rashi  portal,  if  so,  the  details thereof along with the reasons therefor;

(b) whether the Government is of the view that full digitalisation and paperless processing of land acquisition cases would promote transparency, quicken the process, remove corruption and deficiencies and if so, the details regarding the manner in which the portal would prove to be in the interest of the people; and

(c)  whether  the  Bhoomi  Rashi  portal  is  an  example  of  resounding  success  of  the  Ministry, allowing land acquisition process to be digital and paperless, resulting in transparency in land acquisition cases, quickening the process, doing away  the corruption and removing shortcomings?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## (SHRI MANSUKH L. MANDAVIYA)

(a) to (c) Yes, Madam. In the past years, acquisition of land for the purpose of National Highway projects, payment of compensation to the land owners etc were done manually by physical  movement  of  documents  in  the  form  of  files.  However,  in  that  procedure  some constraints  viz.  delay  in  issuing  notification,  errors  in  the  land/area  details  etc  were  being faced. In order to overcome these issues, to cut short delays and avoid parking of public funds with the Competent Authority for Land Acquisition (CALA), Ministry has developed a web based  Utility  -BhoomiRashi  to  fully  digitize  and  automate  the  entire  process  of  land acquisition.

Comprehensive  details  including  names  of  711  districts  and  6,55,297  villages  have been built into the system based on the population Census-2011, duly updated on the basis of revenue records of all the State Governments. The system helps in expediting the process by providing simultaneous Hindi translation and has been linked to the e-gazette for expeditious publication.

With  the  operation  of  this  Portal,  the  land  acquisition  process  has  been  expedited significantly, become error-free and more transparent and the notifications at every stage are being processed on real time basis. While the physical processing of the cases usually took considerable  time,  ranging  from  weeks  to  even  months,  and  there  were  errors  whose rectification caused further delays, the processing time using this portal has been reduced to less than two weeks in a majority of cases and even a few days in some cases.

The Utility has been made more user friendly by adding the feature of SMS services to the  beneficiaries  so  as  to  enhance  timeliness  in  dissemination  of  information,  along  with transparency, and also achieve the objective of real time tracking of activities and generation of reports, relating to land acquisition. It is, therefore, an example of resounding success of the Ministry.

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