Computerised Land Records: A Solution to Many Problems A Study of India
Electronic governance is the latest buzzword for governments trying to cut poverty, address corruption in their bureaucracies and make themselves more responsive to their citizens. It is part of whole swathe of so-called digital solutions that can help developing countries leapfrog certain stages in their development processes. The Indian experiment is being keenly watched and experts are trying to gauge the efficacy of the budding relationship between the government, the computer and the common man. Egovernance as a tool of ICT is impacting the lives of rural poor as well. Computerisation of land records is one of the earliest initiatives of E-governance in India at grass-root level focussing on employing state-of-art information technology to galvanize and transform existing land record system in the country. By its ability to serve as a killer application that can make a large number of privately owned rural internet kiosks economically viable, project Bhoomi showed the way to bridge the digital divide in poorer countries. Bhoomi, a Kamataka government initiative has changed the style of delivery of land records by transforming the manually maintained land records into digital form by providing access to these via information kiosks and fingerprint authentication systems. Bhoomi has won many national and international accolades. It has not only been declared the national model for replication in all states by Ministry of IT.GOI but an independent detailed study of Bhoomi by World Bank in collaboration with Ford Foundation has also been made available on the website of World Bank for facilitating replication by other countries as well. This paper attempts to put forth a model of computerisation of land records developed on lines of Bhoomi to help developing countries facing issues of corruption in land record maintenance so as to bring smiles to face of those who had long been suffering at the hands of whimsical and corrupt supervisors maintaining manual records.
Electronic-governance Computerisation of land records Digitization Bhoomi
Divya Vishen Manoj Dixit
Department of Public Administration, Lucknow University Head of Department, Department of Public Administration, Member ASPA, Lucknow University,Lucknow, In
国际会议
2010 International Conference on Public Administration(6th)(2010 第六届公共管理国际会议)
澳大利亚堪培拉
英文
303-312
2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）