BHOOMI RASHI PORTAL

About:

• Objective: Bhoomi Rashi is the Land Acquisition Portal that allows for totally digital and paper-less processing of land acquisition cases for various Highway projects.
  
  
• Implementing agency: It has been developed by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.
  
  
• Salient features:
  • Revenue records of about 7 lakh villages across the country have been integrated in the portal.
    
    
  • Earlier the approved compensation amount used to be parked with the CALA (Competent Authority for Land Acquisition). But now this amount is directly transferred into the account of the person concerned, through Public Financial Management System (PFMS) which is an integral part of the portal.
    
    
  
  
  
• Benefits:
  • This has resulted in transparent handling of land acquisition cases. It has made possible THE real-time tracking of activities and generation of reports relating to land acquisition.
    
    
  • It has also drastically reduced the time taken for issuance of land acquisition.