Andra Pradesh government is contemplating the recently launched website Mee Bhoomi, equipped with digitised land records, as a platform for agriculture related transactions including sanction of crop loans to eligible farmers. The government is also planning to scrap certificates pertaining to nativity, residence and income making Aadhaar as the single source of information about the citizens.
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who reviewed the performance of the Revenue department with senior officials on Monday, said the government was exploring the possibility of abolishing title deeds and pattadar passbooks and replace them with the details available on Mee Bhoomi portal as authenticated information of land owners.
The Revenue department was accordingly directed to complete digitisation of field measurement book records within nine months. This would enable integration of land records with satellite maps along with details of the extent of crop lands.
Referring to the caste certificates, the Chief Minister instructed the department to update the pending ones while the field level staff would collect the data from individual households in case of new ones.
The data would be uploaded instantly on the Mee Bhoomi portal through the tablets being provided to the field staff.
Steps were under way to train VROs, agriculture officers, anganwadi supervisors, ANMs and school headmasters for the purpose.
The government would also purchase new electronic total system machines for surveying lands and this would go a long way in ensuring transparency while the department, on its part, should engage outsourced persons as surveyors.
The government was mulling a pulse survey on preparation of the socio-economic citizen database and the work on the issue was expected to commence in August. The Chief Minister, who sanctioned Rs. 30 crore for the department to take up pending works, wanted the officials concerned to check whether the mutation process could be completed in 10 days.