Bhoomi Rashi is speeding the land acquisition process, says government

Jan 4, 2019: Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways Mansukh L Mandaviya, has stated that the Bhoomi Rashi portal- the government’s one-point platform for online processing of land acquisition and notifications - is helping in expediting the land acquisition process significantly.

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. 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 a real-time basis. It has also been linked to the e-gazette for expeditious publication.

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, Mandaviya said.

In the past years, acquisition of land for the purpose of National Highway projects, payment of compensation to the landowners etc was 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), the government developed a web-based Utility –BhoomiRashi to fully digitize and automate the entire process of land acquisition.