Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Haryana CM launches web portal for purchase of land

Chandigarh, June, 27- The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr  Manohar Lal today launched “ebhoomiharyana.org.in” a web portal developed by Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) for purchase of land voluntary offered to the Government for development projects. 
         On the occasion, the Chief Minister informed that on February 6, 2017, the State Government had notified a policy for purchase of land voluntarily offered to Government for development projects. He said that the policy was aimed at preventing distress sales of land by farmers and involving the landowners in decision making while locating the sites of development projects in the State. The twin objectives of the policy are sought to be achieved by establishing a mechanism whereby, a farmer before considering distress sale is assured of approaching the Government as a potential buyer for its projects and the Government can elicit if some landowners would be so keen about the benefits of a particular project that they would be willing to sell their land to government for it.
         He further informed that this portal is a landmark initiative of the Haryana Government to transform the way land is procured in the State for public purposes. It would help in preventing distress sale of landowners by offering State Government as the potential buyer. The portal would help in matching the land requirement of Government with voluntary offer of land by landowners and creating data base of such available land, he added.
          Through this portal, a State Government Department can upload their land requirement for development projects with details like total land requirement, feasible area, nearest land mark etc. and the land owners would be able to view the requirement on a google map through the portal. 
           The land owners can enter their land sale offers on the portal either against specific demand by the Government Department or on their own without any specific demand. The voluntary offer for sale of land by the land owners shall help the State Government in creation of the data base of available land for planning development projects.
           The portal has been designed in a user friendly manner and land owners will be able to access the portal in Hindi also. The land owner requires just his mobile number to access the portal and an OTP is sent on his mobile number. The land owner is required to enter basic details of land ownership and upload a copy of jamabandi and Aks-sajra of the offered land. The portal shall soon have linkage with the land records data base of the State Government.
      Apart from the land owner, aggregators, who are registered under the Haryana Regulation Act, Property dealers and Consultant Act, 2008 and rules made there under, can also offer land against demand of any State Government Department. 
    HSIIDC has been notified as the designated agency for providing this online portal and consultancy support to all the departments of the State and also conduct empanelment of aggregators. Dr. Raja Sekhar Vundru, Managing Director, HSIIDC informed that five departments have already uploaded their land requirements on the portal and once advertisement is issued by the concerned department, land owners would be able to offer their land against the requirement of the departments. For managing the portal and providing consultancy support in this regard, a separate Land Consultancy Cell is being created within HSIIDC. He further informed that the portal is capable to keep the departments, aggregators and land owners informed about the offers made through this portal by SMS as well as email. The portal would also have facility of GIS mapping of the offered land on a Google map. Various stake holders of this portal include indenting State Government Departments, HSIIDC, Land owners, Land Aggregators, Revenue Department and Local District Administration. 
           Dr. Vundru said that the scrutiny of the applications received through this portal would be done by the concerned State Government Department and HSIIDC would provide necessary assistance in evaluation of the bids of offer. Final decision to purchase the land would be taken by the concerned State Government department on the recommendations of High Powered Land Purchase Committee under the Chairmanship of Minister, Revenue and Disaster Management, he added.
    Finance Minister, Capt Abhimanyu, Industries and Commerce Minister, Mr Vipul Goel, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Nayab Singh Saini, Chief Secretary, Mr D S Dhesi, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr Rajesh Khullar, Principal Secretary, Industries, Mr Sudhir Rajpal and other senior officers were present on the occasion. 
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