Bhoomi Rashi portal

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Govt. of India has designed Bhoomi Rashi as a single point platform for online processing of land acquisition notifications to accelerate highway infrastructure development projects in India.

Land Acquisition

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is engaged in developing India’s road infrastructure sector and executes its projects through various implementation agencies, viz. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), National Highways & Infrastructure Development Company Ltd. (NHIDCL) and State PWDs. The objective of the Ministry is to fast-track economic growth, for which improved road connectivity, specifically expansion and upgradation of the National Highways network, is of vital importance.

Land Acquisition is critical for the commencement and completion of construction of National Highways, which begins once the alignment plan and land acquisition plan for a specific project, are approved. The process starts with the appointment of a revenue functionary of the State Government as Competent Authority for Land Acquisition (CALA) for each NH Project. It ends at taking of physical possession of the land by the implementing authority and disbursal of compensation to each affected/interested party.

MoRTH has developed Bhoomi Rashi - online Land Acquisition (LA) system which would provide linkage across authorities, eliminate the need of physical copy, reduce the formatting errors/clerical mistakes and enable easy tracking of the draft notification.

Features of Bhoomi Rashi

• Bilingual application with Hindi and English for easy usability
• Preparation of interface for adding project basic details including LA sanction details.
• Preparation of interface for Land Acquisition locations i.e. villages
• Preparation of Interface for CALA details
• Interface for generating LA notification
• Interface for Land Details
• Interface for generation of 3a, 3A & 3D notification: organizational email IDS for all those involved in the process flow to ensure smooth e-office management
• Interface for Objections and processing
• Interface for compensation determination and finalization
• Generation of web service for getting payment status and beneficiary validation from Public Financial Management System (PFMS) platform of the Ministry of Finance
• Interface for Land owners and affected parties
• Interface for reports generation

Bhoomi Rashi was made operational on 1st April 2018. It can be accessed at http://bhoomirashi.gov.in/index.asp

Benefits

The portal would enhance the efficiency of the land acquisition process, ensure transparency and accountability, and result in e-transfer of benefits directly to the accounts of the beneficiaries. Its benefits would be faster process completion, transparent fund transfer to the land owners/beneficiaries and reduction of procedural errors.

The portal has the potential to open new opportunities, and enhance efficiency in the LA process. Earlier, physical processing of the cases usually took weeks to even months. Now, the portal has reduced the processing time to a few days, around 2 weeks for majority of the cases.

Bhoomi Rashi has also been integrated with the Public Financial Management System (PFMS) platform of the Ministry of Finance, for deposition of compensation in the account of affected/interested person, on real-time basis.

Source : Bhoomi Rashi portal