Bhoomi

• Farmers can quickly get their land records from Kiosks and are protected from harassment and extortion. As against time delay of 3 to 30 days they now get their records in less than 2 minutes. No overhead cost is to be incurred. No application is required to be submitted at the kiosk. The records are authentic and legible. Use of biometrics authentication system for updation of records have freed farmers from the worry of probable manipulation of their records by some times some unscrupulous officials.


• They can lodge application for mutation (change in land title) to their land records at the mutation kiosks, get acknowledgement for the same and can monitor the progress using touch screen kiosks available in some Bhoomi centers. They would then get their updated land record in a fixed time frame without the need of approaching any authority. As against earlier time of 70-200 days, mutation would now require less than 35 days.


• Farmers can also get the official status report of their request for mutation which would let them know the stage at which their request is pending. This status report would help them in enforcing their right of getting the record mutated in the prescribed time.


• Access to farm credit would now be less cumbersome. Online connectivity to banks would ensure farm credit to farmers in less than 5 days as against 25-30 days in manual system.


• It would be easier for the farmers to pursue land related litigation in the court.

• Easy maintenance and updation of land records documents. In manual system land records updation used to get delayed by as high as 1-2 years in some cases. Now it would always be in sync with time.


• Support for development programs, based on valuable land records data like various crops grown in a village or a sub district, the fertilizers and pesticide requirement in a season etc to Departments like Agriculture, Industries and Planning. Such data in earlier system became available to departments only after 2-3 years. It is now available almost immediately.


• Accurate and timely preparation of annual records like land revenue etc.,


• Monitoring of Government lands and prevention of their encroachments. Lack of monitoring had costed a reported loss of Rs.25 billion to State Government by way of officials tampering with records.

• Courts would be able to make use of land record database for adjudicating various civil disputes related to ownership, possession and cultivation in various courts.

• Online connectivity to financial institutions would help banks in planning for their farm credit related activities. In manual system they worked on 2 years old data or just guessed the farm sector requirement


• Online connectivity would also helps banks to ensure that revenue administration is indicating bank's charge on land records of such farmers who have availed crop loans.


• Facilitates creating change on land of those farmers who take crop loans.

• Private sector had complained of absence of crop and land data for their planning purpose.


• Bhoomi data would help supplier of various agricultural inputs like seeds, pesticide, fertilizers etc. to plan their activities.


• Details of irrigated lands and pattern of land holding could be used by private sector for more informed decision making. In manual system such data was just not available.