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New Delhi : Union Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Chemical & Fertilizers Mansukh Mandaviya has expressed confidence over the successful implementation of the Bhoomi Rashi Portal in Land Acquisition process for roads and highways sector in the country.
Speaking in New Delhi on November 14, 2018, Mandaviya said that digitalisation in India is reaching new heights under the able leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bhoomi Rashi portal of Ministry of Road Transport & Highways is an excellent testimony to this success. The portal allows for totally digital and paperless processing of land acquisition cases and has resulted in transparent, quick, corruption-free and error-free handling of land acquisition cases. It has also made the possible real time tracking of activities and generation of reports relating to land acquisition.
Mandaviya informed that revenue records of about 7 lakh villages across the country have been integrated in the portal. He said this digital change has drastically reduced the time taken for issuance of land acquisition notifications from 3-6 months to 1-2 weeks. The Minister informed that while during the past two years about a thousand land acquisition notifications could be issued every year, over 1,700 notifications have already been issued by the Ministry in the first seven months of this financial year.
Mandaviya further said that the process has also brought transparency in the system. Earlier, the approved compensation amount used to be parked with the CALA (Competent Authority for Land Acquisition) but with Bhoomi Rashi portal this amount is directly transferred into the account of the person concerned through Public Financial Management System which is an integral part of the portal. In addition to this, the process is also environment friendly since there is no physical movement of files – all work is done digitally. Mandaviya said the Bhoomi Rashi portal is truly a success story of Digital India, according to a PIB release.