Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal emphasised the need to evolve a system through which the people can get their work concerning various departments done while being at home. In a another step towards digitalization and to ensure transparency in land deals, CM Khattar lauched an online Land purchase Portal – ‘e-Bhoomi’.

Facts :

• The Chief Minister launched ‘e-Bhoomi’, Land Purchase Portal for government projects and to simplify the property registration system, so that the people do not have to visit government offices for registration of property.
• The ‘e-Bhoomi’ Portal is being developed by Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC).
• The portal would also be capable to handle even voluntary offers for sale of land by the landowners to the government. This would help the State Government in preparing its own land bank.
• The state government has approved a policy on the purchase of land voluntarily offered to the government for development projects and to implement the policy, the HSIIDC has been mandated as designated agency for the online portal and consultancy support.
• The ‘e-Bhoomi’ portal is a transparent mechanism and would prevent distress sale of land by the farmers as the government would be potential partner.
• It would also provide an opportunity to the land owners to get involved in the decision making process while locating sites for development projects and ensure hassle free land procurement by the departments.
• Independent departments, HSIIDC, land owners, land aggregators, revenue department and local district administration would be the major stakeholders in this system.
• Public notice and advertisement would be released by the indenting department for land procurement and the offers could be made within a period of 30 days.
• The landowners would have the option to input details in Hindi also and get the acknowledgement of the application through SMS or Email. Unique Service Request number would also be generated for tracking by land owners or land aggregators.
• Committee of Secretaries would scrutinise the proposal of Indenting Department for purchase of land. After finalisation of the decision to purchase land by the High Powered Land Purchase Committee, the information would be uploaded on the portal.

Analysis :

• This newly launched e-portal for land procurement process in the Haryana state will make things much easier for acquiring lands for the development projects by the government. Since, the entire process carried in online there will be more transparency when it comes to selling or buying lands.
• Also the e-portal has the unique features by which the land owners especially the owner of the non-farming field can able to offer their lands to the development project of government voluntarily.
• In order to make sure the best outcomes in the land acquirements in-between the buyers and sellers of the lands, the HSIIDC ensures the convenience for both parties in the portal.
• The entire system is designed in such a way that the normal man can easily access the government works on the land purchasing work right from their home. And also it makes things easier for the farmers to handle their distressed land sales on their own.
• The e-bhoomi portal gives the authentication for the farmers to make their own decision when it comes to land procurements process and make the procedure more transparent to public by making it in online.
• Under this newly launched e-bhoomi portal both the buyers and sellers would be able to make hassle-free deal, and the digitalization helps the buyers and sellers to get access with the land procurement process in their smart phones by the help of its own mobile application.
• Without any intermediate in the land procurement process, the buyers can able to get their own price and it helps them to get reasonable price for their lands from the sellers. And for sellers it will be quite easy for them to get things done with the buyers in straight.
• On sorting out the difficulties of the land procurement process in the state, the state government of Haryana done a great thing by launching this e-portal where the state farmers and land owners gets the power of fixing the price for their lands by their own.