Table 2 - Department of Land Resources

9,000 Village Accountants, 800 Revenue Inspectors, 203 Sheristedars, 1000 Operatorscum-Village
Accountants, 203 Tahsildars and 52 Assistant Commissioners work on the
system based on clear-cut roles and privileges given to them.
Initially BHOOMI was implemented in 203 locations in phased manner from 1999 to
2002 as standalone system with local server and clients. In 2005 a V-SAT based network
was establish to connect all the taluka servers to State Data Centre (SDC) and replication
of BHOOMI database between taluk and SDC was put in place. The replicated data in
SDC helps in disaster recovery activities incase data is lost due to any reason in the taluk
server. Data in SDC is also used in publishing record of rights on web and developing
interfaces with different stakeholders. After commissioning of KSWAN (Karnataka State
Wide Area Network), V-SAT based network has been discarded and KSWAN is being
used for communication between taluk and SDC.
Under BHOOMI project, maintenance of land records electronically was given first
priority keeping all other interfaces as manual only. Initially all the registration events of
registration department, farm credit declarations from Banks and co-operatives societies,
notifications from land acquisition authorities, government and court orders etc., were
intimated to BHOOMI centre in paper form. BHOOMI project had employed “Bottom-
Up” approach in implementing e-Governance which is evolutionary / synthesizing model
wherein start with simple activities and scale up fast to achieve larger objectives within
the department individually. Once the individual systems are stable and sustainable then
start integrating them to achieve ultimate objectives. Started as simple vanilla application
to maintain land records, today BHOOMI has been enhanced in such way that it has
electronic interfaces with other departments / wings. SDC database is being used to
publish web services to departments / wings of government machinery to use the land
records data and submit the transactions electronically so that mutations can be started
automatically without human intervention. Details of these interfaces are discussed in
length under the heading stakeholders.
Objectives of Project
The major objectives of the BHOOMI project were:
• Facilitating easy maintenance and prompt updating of land records.
• Making land records tamper-proof.
• Allowing farmers easy access to their records.
• Collating the information to construct a database regarding land revenue, cropping
pattern, land use, etc.
• Utilising the data for planning and for formulating development programmes.
• Integrating all the land related activities electronically with BHOOMI so as to
achieve single source of ROR data and its updation with minimum or no human
intervention.
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