Write short note on Bhoomi project
- Bhoomi is a project jointly funded by the Government of India and the Government of Karnataka to digitize the paper land records and create a software mechanism to control changes to the land registry in Karnataka. The project was designed to eliminate the long-standing problem of inefficiency and corruption in the maintenance of land records at dispersed and poorly supervised and audited block-level offices known as "taluka" offices in South India and "tehsildar" offices in North India. The project development and implementation were done by National Informatics Centre. Many experiments with computerization have failed due to corruption and other factors.
- Implementation of Land record computerization has been difficult in India. Bhoomi succeeded because there was a champion who worked a 15-hour day for over 12 months, devoting 80% of his time to the project. Minimizing resistance from staff by harnessing political support was an important contributory factor. Extensive training coupled with a participatory style also helped to diminish resistance."
- In Karnataka State, the land records were earlier maintained through a manual system, involving 9,000 village accountants, each serving a cluster of 3-4 villages. Nearly 2,500 bank branches in Karnataka loan approximately Rs. 40 billion to farmers as working capital every year. The concept of the Computerized Land Records Management Process was first introduced in Karnataka through the BHOOMI initiative in 2001 to bring in overall transparency, effectiveness, and ease in the management and maintenance of the Land Records through automation of various processes.
The major objectives to be fulfilled by the Bhoomi project were:
- Facilitating easy maintenance and prompt updating of land records
- Making land records tamper-proof
- Allowing farmers easy access to their records
- Collating the information to construct a database regarding land revenue cropping patterns, land use, etc.
- Utilizing the data for planning and for formulation development programs
Comments
Post a Comment