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Monday, Jul 22, 2002
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E-Governance Agri-Biz & Commodities - Policy Karnataka plans security audit of Bhoomi system Vishwanath Kulkarni
BANGALORE, July 21 THE Karnataka Government is planning to conduct a security audit of Bhoomi, one of its e-governance initiative through which it has computerised the entire agricultural land records in the State, even as it plans to decentralise the project further. ``We are in the process of identifying security consultants and hiring ethical hackers to conduct an audit of the system,'' said Mr Rajeev Chawla, Additional Secretary, Revenue Department, Government of Karnataka. "The need for security audit arises as we intend to provide external connectivity to the proposed district data centres, which would store these records," Mr Chawla said. ``Banks and courts would be allowed to access the data online over the next six months,'' he added. The land record data, which has been collected in the electronic form at the village level is presently being stored and updated at the taluk level. Soon this data from various taluks will be compiled and stored at the district data centres, he added. Ultimately, the data from districts is likely to be stored and managed at the State level and connectivity would be provided through the Internet. An estimated 17 million records have been computerised under the Bhoomi project. As a result of this, handwritten records are no longer valid in the State. The land records are presently accessible for the farmers at the taluk headquarters. There are about 177 taluks in the State. ``In a bid to decentralise the process further, we are planning to move further down to the `hobli' level,'' said Mr Chawla. At present, farmers have to travel about 30 to 40 kms and even sometimes more than that to the taluk headquarters to get a copy of their records. ``We intend to provide these records at their doorsteps at the `hobli' level,'' he said. A `hobli' is a cluster of several villages. There are about 750 `hoblis' in the State. ``The State Government proposes to seek private partnership in this regard,'' Mr Chawla said. ``As mentioned by the Chief Minister in this year's Budget speech, we initially plan to take this initiative to about 20 `hoblis' and then the private sector would be involved extensively to distribute these records,'' he added.
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