Bhoomi, Kaveri will together fight fraud

TUMKUR: Sample this - Nijalingappa, a farmer, bought two acres from Honnappa in a village off NH-4 in Tumkur for Rs 3 lakh, with the help of a middleman.
After getting the property registered at the local sub-registrar office, he tried to take possession of the land, and realized that it belonged to another farmer, who had been cultivating it for the past 60 years.
To his further dismay, Nijalingappa found that two acres falling under the same survey number had been sold multiple times to different people with the tacit approval of the local sub-registrar.
As a solution to end such frauds, the state government on Friday launched a computerized registration procedure by integrating Bhoomi and Kaveri, the two e-governance schemes of the state government. "The new system will not only simplify the registration procedure but also put an end to bogus registrations and corruption, that are widely prevalent in rural areas,'' revenue minister G Karunakara Reddy said at a function held to mark the 10th anniversary of the Bhoomi project.
The integrated pilot project will be initially introduced in 25 taluks in the state and be gradually extended across the state.
That's not all. Under the new system, a person who wants to register a property will get periodical SMS alerts - both in English and Kannada - on the status of the registration till the process is complete. While the manual dispatch of documents under the old system caused a 45-day delay, the new system is expected to take not more than a month.