Slide 1

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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
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



Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 2

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 3

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 4

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 5

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 6

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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




Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 7

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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






Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 8

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 9

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 10

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 11

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 12

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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
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



Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 13

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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






Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 14

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 15

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 16

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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

Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 17

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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






Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 18

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 19

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 20

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 21

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation
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Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi


Slide 22

Bhoomi-Online delivery of land
records in Karnataka
Bhoomi

Sequencing of presentation








Importance of Land Records
Problem of Manual System
Benefits of Bhoomi
Recent development in Bhoomi
Spin effect of Bhoomi
Next steps in Bhoomi
Recognition & Awards

Bhoomi

The project happened in Karnataka
Project coverage

 7 million farmers: 35
million beneficiaries
 20 million land records
(0.6 hectare average size
of holding)

Bangalore

0.2 mn sq kms

 177 project locations
serving farmers from
27000 villages

Bhoomi

Its all about agricultural land record reforms
 Data 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
• McKenzie report that 2% Potential growth in GDP is lost due to
bad land records

Bhoomi

The manual system had infirmities
 Opaque 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

Bhoomi

The essence of Bhoomi
Bhoomi is a farmer friendly mechanism
to access and update land records
using state of art technology
Services:
Issue of copies of Land records to citizen
Request by citizens for change (MUTATION) to
their land records on account of sale or
inheritance

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Farmers availing services

Bhoomi

Land records : Then & Now

Manual records

Computerised

Low visibility

Transparency

Cumbersome

Easy access

Dated records

Up to date

Harassment

Citizen friendly

Tamper Prone

Secured

Bhoomi

The path traversed-amazing numbers
 Data entry
• 10000 plus officials underwent training on data preparation
and validation process
• 20,000 man-months legacy data entry involving 1200
operators
• Validated 20 mn records through 6.7 mn farmers and 9000
Village officials

Bhoomi

The transition in documentation

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity

Status of mutation
request available to
farmers from kiosks
Right to information to
citizens under Bhoomi

Age wise pending
record status

Quality assurance and monitoring in BHOOMI

Bhoomi

Transparency ensures social equity
 Gone are the days when Village Accountants would
be able to dole favors on extraneous considerations

First in first out (FIFO) mutations in
Bhoomi
No more discretion to favor influential
people

Bhoomi

Bhoomi has touched farmers’ lives
 61 million copies have been provided from the
Bhoomi kiosks
 Mutation incidence has increased 3 fold

 Land based litigation down by around 50% as per
revenue department officials

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Using 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 under NEMADDI project in place

 Providing value added services to farmers from 800
rural telecentres
• Citizen id, Government schemes details, mandi rates,
weather info

 Provision of bhoomi data to private sector on cost
basis

Bhoomi

Recent developments in Bhoomi
 Process reengineering by way of handling updation
of Spatial data and non spatial data
simultaneously-integrated mutation
• Through I.M spatial and non-spatial data gets updated
simultaneously

 Pilot on PKI enabling of bhoomi
 Electronic linking of lending agencies with bhoomi
• Electronically request Bhoomi for mortgage entries

 Electronic linking of land acquisition officers to
Bhoomi
• Electronically informing Bhoomi of 4(1) and 6(1) on lands

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Bhoomi showed that egov projects are doable with
existing bureaucracy and bring huge value to
citizens
 Can be made self-sustaining by having appropriate
user charges
 Helped in getting political and administrative
support for egov projects across the country

Bhoomi

Spin effects of Bhoomi
 Helped in making rural telecentres project viable
across state of Karnataka by Bhoomi becoming
core revenue earning service to citizens
• 42 other service grew around Bhoomi

 Transparency in land record administration with
updated land records would help in transitioning to
Torrens system at appropriate time

Bhoomi

Next steps in Bhoomi
 Personalising 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 fertilizer he needs for the
land
• The crop he should grow

Bhoomi

Efforts towards Replication and recognitions
 Bhoomi is now declared to be the national model for
replication in all stated by MIT GOI
 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

Bhoomi

Awards

United Nation Public Service Award

Bhoomi

Thank You
Rajeev Chawla
Commissioner Survey settlement and
land records
Govt of Karnataka
E-mail:
[email protected]

Website: www.bhoomi.kar.nic.in

Bhoomi