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Bhudhaar

Bhudhaar is a e-governance project that is intended to assign an 11 digit unique number[1] to every land parcel in the state of Andhra Pradesh[2] as part of the "land hub in E-Pragati programme".[3] Bhudhaar is the first in India to address issues in land record management. Union Government of India also implementing Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) Project with the reference[4] from this Bhudhaar Project. Bhuseva Authority, an inter-departmental committee was formulated to implement and monitor the progress.[5] Eventually all land related transactions will use Bhudhaar as single source of truth to reduces land related disputes. On 18 February 2019, the Andhra pradesh Assembly gave its consent to the legal usage of the Bhudhaar Number in land documents.[6] This project is being regularly monitored by AP CM Dashboard (CORE Dashboard) which was developed and managed by Real Time Governance Society (RTGS) in real time basis.

Bhudhaar
LocationAndhra Pradesh, India
Established20 November 2018 (2018-11-20)
Websitehttp://bhudhaar.ap.gov.in/

Necessity

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Main article: Mee Bhoomi

Land in the state of Andhra Pradesh is generally categorized into agricultural lands, rural properties, and urban properties (like houses, house sites, vacant lands) and forest land. These lands and their records are mainly managed by eight departments in the state. On 13 June 2015 the Revenue Department of the state launched the[7] Mee Bhoomi portal[8] to enable citizens and land owners to view their land records and ownership status at any time. Although people were given land records publicly, it did not solve the integration problem as each department has their own procedural guidelines in providing services to citizens which causes hardship in getting seamless and integrated services.

For instance, a property buyer has to go the corresponding municipality office to enter his name in municipal records as the new property owner. This process[9] takes a long time and causes inefficiency in land governance.

Land related Departments in Andhra Pradesh and their respective functions.
Department Function
Revenue Maintaining the agricultural land records and collection of taxes[10]
Panchayat Raj Maintaining the village lands and properties along with records, tax collections
Municipal Administration Maintaining the urban lands and properties along with records, tax collections, and land use development plans
Registration Registration of ownership changes by means of sales, gift, succession[11]
Survey & Settlements Maintaining the village level and field level maps along with cadastral maps
Forest Maintaining the forest lands and its records [12]
Endowments Maintaining the endowment lands and its records
Wakf Maintaining the wakf lands and its records

Issuing process

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To create a single source of truth on land records and to manage land records efficiently, the Bhuseva Authority started the Bhudhaar program and distributed a number to each property. In this project, all land related departments are to integrate their services to the Bhuseva core platform and assign a Bhudhaar number to all properties along with built up properties when successful transactions are completed.

Land records [13] consists two types of data. Textual data (like village name, name of land owner, survey number, extent, owner ID proofs like Aadhaar, voter ID or other related documents) and spatial data (the data depicting the sketch of the land, its measurements (in links/meters/feet), adjacent fields, location on ground). The Bhudhaar number issued in two stages.

Progress

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As of 22 February 2019, nearly 53% of temporary Bhudhaar numbers were generated.[14]

Type of Land Total Land Parcels Registered Land Parcels Registered Land Parcels Bhudhaar Generation
Private Land Government Land Total Temporary Bhudhaar Permanent Bhudhar Total
Number (%) on Total Land Parcels (%) on Registered Land Parcels Number %
Revenue 23945966 20146412 17499234 2474999 19974233 19974233 83.41 99.15 0 0 19974233
Municipal 3202115 467353 451425 92 451517 450671 14.07 96.43 0 0 451517
Panchayat 8421140 5231066 5099956 0 5099956 5099956 60.56 97.49 0 0 5099956
Total 35569221 25844831 23050615 2475091 25525706 25524860 0 25525706

Nationwide Usage

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Although the present Bhudhaar project has plans to extend nationwide,[15] it was missing scientific approach and harmonization in assigning unique numbers to various regions. To collect taxes and to generate revenue from different properties, each urban or local administration authorities use various assessment numbers. The state of Andhra Pradesh uses the digital door numbering program.[16][17] To bridge the gap, a nationwide comprehensive system is needed. While preserving the existing assigning process, a brand new Bhudhaar numbering system with a 12 digit alphanumeric pattern can be used.

First two digits—State codes (census code for temporary bhudhaar number, vehicle registration code for permanent bhudhaar number)

Third and fourth digits—District code in the respective states

Fifth and sixth digits—Sub-district code in respective districts.

Seventh and eighth digits—Village/block/ward level code in the respective sub-district/municipality.

Last four digits—random 4 digits containing alphanumeric letters.

References

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  1. ^ "Launching of Bhudhaar". The Hindu. 20 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Land parcels in Andhra to get unique code under Bhudhaar programme". The Times of India. 23 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Land Hub".
  4. ^ "NIC Concept Note on ULPIN" (PDF).
  5. ^ "ప్రగతి సూచిక - భూసేవ". bhuseva.ap.gov.in. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Bhudhaar Act" (PDF).[permanent dead link‍]
  7. ^ Sridhar, G. Naga (13 June 2015). "AP launches 'Mee Bhoomi' digital depository of land records". @businessline. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  8. ^ "MEE BHOOMI::Home". www.meebhoomi.ap.gov.in. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Land Records and Titles in India". PRSIndia. 1 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  10. ^ "CCLA :: CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF LAND ADMINISTRATION". ccla.ap.gov.in. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  11. ^ ":: IGRS ::". registration.ap.gov.in. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  12. ^ "A.P. Forest Department". www.forests.ap.gov.in. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  13. ^ "Bhseva Hand Out" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  14. ^ "ప్రగతి సూచిక - భూసేవ". bhuseva.ap.gov.in. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  15. ^ "'Bhu Seva' project to be rolled out by October". The Hindu. 1 February 2018. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  16. ^ "Chandrababu Naidu to inaugurate digital door numbers in Tirupati today". The Hans India. 22 September 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  17. ^ "Survey underway for assigning Digital Door Numbers". The Hans India. 19 December 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
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