Context: Bhoomi Rashi Portal is in news recently regarding the land acquisition process of Central Government.It has significantly expedited error free and transparent land acquisition for National Highways.

• The Bhoomi Rashi Portal is an e-Governance initiative of the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.
• The objective of this is to expedite the process of land acquisition for National Highways. It has fully digitized and automated the entire process of land acquisition.
• Earlier, the acquisition of land for the purpose of National Highway projects, payment of compensation to the landowners etc. was done manually by physical movement of documents.
• It had some constraints viz. delay in issuing land acquisition notification, errors in the land/ area details etc.
• The portal is integrated with the Public Financial Management System(PFMS) for depositing the compensation in the account of affected/ interested persons on a real-time basis.
• The BhoomiRashi portal model is replicable and can be used by state governments as well as by Ministries which directly acquire land under their relevant legal provisions.