Siddaramaiah asks Revenue Department to expedite land mutation and conversion process

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah praises Revenue Department's digital progress, emphasizes faster, citizen-friendly services, and quality case disposal.

Hailing the Revenue Department for its progress in digitation and service delivery besides quick disposal of cases, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday called upon the department to build on its progress and ensure faster and more citizen-friendly services. He asked the department to expedite the process of land mutations and conversions besides stressing the need to extend the initiative of using drones for property surveys in urban areas of 21 districts to the entire State.

Chairing a meeting to review the progress of the department here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister advised that the focus should also be there on “quality“ disposal of cases by tahsildars and assistant commissioners instead of merely concentrating on “quantity” of disposal. The qualitative disposal would end the prolonging of litigation like going on an appeal to the higher authority, he said.

The Chief Minister, who was briefed by Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda about the reduction in pendency of cases, expressed happiness over the number of long-pending cases before the courts of tahsildars and assistant commissioners reducing drastically. He stressed the need for continuous improvement to make services more seamless and accessible.

Mr. Siddaramaiah directed officials to expedite the process of land mutation and conversion applications to help the general public. He pointed out that the automation system had significantly improved the speed of the land mutation process and expressed happiness over the process of issuing khata getting completed within a day in nearly 65% of cases.

He particularly instructed officials to make efforts to ensure that the land conversion process was completed within a month and pointed out that the legislation had been amended to ensure that the areas covered under any master plan do not require conversion. The Chief Minister asked the department to regularly update the master plans.

Referring to the technology-driven initiatives, the Chief Minister lauded the use of drone surveys for property mapping, which has enabled the issuance of property cards in urban areas. “Drone surveys have already covered 21 districts, and under the ‘Bhoosuraksha’ project, eight crore original land documents have been digitised across all 31 districts,” he said. He asked the officials to cover the remaining districts too.