Paperless registration, digital land records: Karnataka budget pushes digital overhaul in Revenue Department
The Hindu
Karnataka's 2026-27 budget prioritises digital governance in the Revenue Department, enhancing paperless services and integrating land records.
The State Budget 2026-27 announced a series of initiatives aimed at strengthening digital governance in the Revenue Department, with a focus on integrating databases, upgrading software platforms, and expanding paperless services.
The government will also develop a new platform for digital e-stamping and end-to-end paperless registration. After that, stamp generation, record writing, document storage, retrieval, and digital sharing processes will be carried out online.
One sub-registrar office in each district will be modernised as a ‘Registration Guarantee Centre’ to improve citizen experience during mandatory visits. Modelled on Passport Seva Kendras, five mega-registration centres of global standards will be established under the public-private partnership model in the State.
Under the Karnataka Land-Stack scheme, data from applications such as Bhoomi, Mojini, Kaveri, e‑Swathu, and e‑Aasthi will be integrated into a master database and hosted on a GIS-based digital platform.
The Kaveri software will be upgraded to version 3.0 at a cost of ₹65 crore, aimed at plugging the existing issues and also at simplifying the registration process. The new system will enable AI-based paperless registration and will be integrated with asset management systems across departments. There were bottlenecks reported over e-Khata and malware attacks on the Kaveri 2.0 portal recently.
Further, the Bhoomi platform will be upgraded to version8.0 at an estimated cost of ₹50 crore, making it compatible with the latest technologies. The upgraded system will be linked with more than 10 departments.
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