e-Bhoomi online system for land records launched by Himachal govt.

• The government has launched e-Bhoomi online system, wherein all details with regard to the availability of individual land and that for setting up an industry will be available.
• According to the Industries Department any person who wanted to sell land and property could post on this portal. The salient feature of the system is a hassle-free listing of land for sale to the government or the private sector for development projects.
• The system provided information about land availability for interested buyers across the state. The collector rate list availability enabled buyers to manage funds for projects.
• .Any individual with an intention to sell land/property can list out his property on this portal. The salient features of e-Bhoomi online system were said to be a hassle-free listing of land for sale to government/private sector for development projects.

• The system provides information about land availability for interested buyers across the state. The Collector rate list availability enables buyers to manage funds for projects. No commission by the government is involved in selling/purchase of land in Himachal Pradesh. The advantage of this system is eliminating the need of aggregators and commission agents in property dealing.

• The system allows an applicant/landowner to register and login-in from anywhere through his/her mobile number. The seller fills the complete detail of the land property in ‘Land Detail Form’ and uploads the land-related document. The land details will then be available on public domain/homepage for interested buyers to purchase land as per requirement.
• In future the buyer module will also be developed where any government entity/entrepreneur can also put their requirement for land on this portal and the interested sellers can respond to their need.

Land Records Maintenance in Himachal Pradesh :

The land records are maintained in the manner prescribed under Section 31 - 37 of Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act. Under this Act, elaborate procedures for making the new records at the time of new settlement and their periodical updating have been laid down. The system of land administration is similar to a great extent to that in Punjab and is perhaps one of the best in the country. In the present manual system, the revenue authorities maintain different types of periodical documents namely Shajra Nasb, Jamabandi and associated statements (Records of Rights), Intkal (Mutation Register), Khasra Girdawari (Harvest Inspection) Register Overall growth, technological and social hazards, environmental degradation have all taken into account today by the policy makers, resource planners and administrators who make decisions about the land. They need more detailed land information that has been traditionally available. Although efforts are made to improve the manual system of maintenance of land records but these efforts are not sufficient. Computerisation of this oldest system offer improved way of acquiring, storing, processing and retrieving information.

Future Benefits :

The introduction of ICT have played a significant role by not only standardizing the Land records documents, procedures and implementation of various Acts & Policies but has also made life of people easy by making available legible records of rights (ROR) in time without any hassle and they need not chase the Patwari for copy of ROR.

The computerisation has been adopted overwhelmingly both by department as well as the public. Patwari has more time to serve public and perform multiple official duties and at the same time, the public has been put into convenient position as one can obtain ROR from Tehsil/Sub-Tehsil centre on any working day by filling a simple application form. Instances have come to notice where for taking copy of ROR, one had to wait 2-3 months where as now it is available in just 10 minutes.