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Board of Revenue*

Avneesh Gupta

1. Key Performance
The department is working for farmers of the state and committed to uplift their day to
day needs by making land reforms policies. The department has adopted technology in all
the corners related to that. Board of Revenue has implemented several e-Gov projects to
enhance the efficiency, to reflect transparency in its working. BHULEKH is the project in
which all the Land Records of the state in each 312 tehsils of 71 districts have been
computerized. Farmers are getting extracts of their land records from the single window
at grass root level. The benefit of e-Gov project has reached at the level of grass root
class of rural masses. The 2.5 crores farmer's account has been put in computer and on
internet server to access the records from any corner. The stake holder like Banks, Sugar
Mills, agricultural agencies are taking benefit of e-Gov approach of Board of Revenue.
Banks are verifying the records while sanctioning the loan to the farmers. A great impact
has been reflected on the masses. Board of Revenue has successfully implemented
Revenue SOFT a web based MIS for all type of information needed on monthly basis.
The paper based system of sending and receiving data has been abandoned. The project
system is working since last 2 years. This has removed lagging in the data transmission.
The department has launched a project for verification of all type of certificates like
income, domicile and caste. These certificates are being issued from tehsils and are
important for various stake holders. So far verification of these certificates was tedious
process. Through this e-Gov project, anybody can verify these certificates from the
website of Board of Revenue. The department has launched the project to scan and
digitized old settlement records of revenue record room in all the districts of the state.
These records are valuable and need to preserve it for long time. It’s a one kind of new
technology. The department has computerized all the court cases pending currently. The
monitoring of these cases through automated cause list enable litigants to get the justice
in time related to their land disputes. E-patravali is the e-Gov project in the department
where all the files are kept on computer. The tracking of each file is through computer.
Each official is answerable for timely disposal of files. Many other projects like building
network of all the 312 tehsil through 2 mbps link, Data ware housing and mining for
various type of analysis.

2. Citizen and Business Centric


• Land Records Computerization -Among 2.5 crores farmers of the state are taking
benefit of the system. This has reached to the common rural masses where other
e-Gov project has not reached even one level up. These records which have been
out on internet server, enables stakeholders like National Banks, Sugar mills and
the individual land owner to check the records from remote.

This chapter is re-produced with permission from the book “Transforming Government – eGovernment Initiatives in
India, Editors: R K Bagga and Piyush Gupta, Published by : The ICFAI University Press, 2009.
• 2- Verification of certificates- The flux of 1,00,000 certificates Income, domicile
and caste are being put on web server daily .From where the common citizen can
check the authenticity of the issued certificates. Employers, Government, Schools
and many more now are verifying these certificates from the Board of Revenue
site. Pure citizen centric application is working in the state.

3. Government and Employee Centric


• Karmchari - The web based PIS caring for 70,000 revenue officials for their
service matters. This project is centralize and decentralize both at one time where
appointing authorities, apex level and individual are taking part to make this
system workable. Each individual revenue official is now enable to access his/her
personal matters like annual entries, GPF, service book, time scales, pensions etc
through web and can lodge a complaint if found any discrepancy in the records.
Creating great satisfaction among the revenue employees.

• E Patravali - The file and paper tracking system working in the department. The
officials are now responsible /answerable for the disposal of each paper which is
under consideration. The matters are being disposed in the time bound manner.
Efficiency has been increased in the department.

4. Integrated Government
Department has developed a common web portal caring personal matters of the
employees of other department. The common web portal is working for other department
like Local Bodies, NEDA Sachivalaya Prashashan, IG Registration etc. This is good
example of integrating government. The portal is working at http://Karmchari.up.nic.in

5. Government Efficiency
E-patravali is the project where the department has shown the increased efficiency of the
employees. The timely disposal of each paper is creating good impact on the working of
the department.

6. Innovation and Best Practices


1- Three dimensional centralized and decentralize simultaneously development of
KARMCHARI application is the new innovation. File tracking system is the best practice
in the department.

7. Policy & Strategy


Board of Revenue while implementing e-Gov projects adopts all sorts of policy framing,
training, security mechanism etc. The major project by which 2.5 crore farmers are taking

This chapter is re-produced with permission from the book “Transforming Government – eGovernment Initiatives in
India, Editors: R K Bagga and Piyush Gupta, Published by : The ICFAI University Press, 2009.
benefits is based on the ISO certified software, workshops at various level, On -site
training of the Revenue officials, operational manuals etc.

8. Infrastructure
The department has 100 computers at apex level and 2000 computers up to grass root
level to fulfill the requirement. All the levels of this department are networked with ISDN
lines and State project of 2MPBPS line(SWAN).Each district has District data centre to
pool the data in the form of data warehouse. Very soon the data mining at state level
through SAN system will work for state level queries/data analysis. A monitoring cell is
working to control all the levels.

9. Technologies
Department follows ISO certification in software development and the guidelines given
by NIC time to time for security in implementing of the system.

10. People & Leadership


Chairman, Board of Revenue UP is the senior most IAS officer who takes care of all the
e-gov projects in the department .He himself monitor the progress of all the projects and
has clear cut vision of the IT projects.

Project Contact Details


Avneesh Gupta
Technical Director,
Officer In-charge Computers, Board of Revenue, NIC
Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh
[email protected]
[email protected]

This chapter is re-produced with permission from the book “Transforming Government – eGovernment Initiatives in
India, Editors: R K Bagga and Piyush Gupta, Published by : The ICFAI University Press, 2009.

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