E-registration project to provide faster registration of documents

The people of Orissa can get their land and other documents registered in less than an hour compared to 30-45 days taken under the prevailing system manual registration, thanks to the roll out of e-Dharini, the e-registration project of the state government.

The e-Dharini, a Rs 100 crore project was rolled out on Monday by chief minister Naveen Patnaik.

This project which is one of the Mission Mode projects of the state government is implemented by by Orissa e-Governance Services Limited (OeSL), a special purpose vehicle formed by Orissa Computer Application Centre (OCAC) and IL&FS-Infrastructure Development Corporation. The project is being taken up on the public private partnership (PPP) mode and it would be implemented by on BOOT (build, own, operate and transfer) basis “The e-Dharini project is aimed at offering citizen centric services to the people of Orissa. Under this project, a deed can be registered in less than an hour”, Patnaik said after rolling out the project. S N Patra, the state minister for revenue and disaster management; Ramesh C Majhi, the minister for information technology; P K Mohapatra, the state IT secretary; R K Sharma, revenue secretary and Dinesh K Tyagi, chief executive officer, OeSL were present on the occasion.

The project will make use of biometric authentication system to ensure that there is no manipulation of records by unscrupulous methods, he added.

“The e-registration project will bring about revolutionary changes in the way services are being delivered to the citizens. We have captured the benchmark valuation for each and every plot of the state”, said Mohapatra.

The e-registration project will be applicable to all essential records including birth, marriage and death certificates as well as land records.

The objectives of this project are to replace existing manual systems of verification and scrutiny of documents, ensure valuation of properties, capturing and preserving copies of the documents and maintenance of back office records.