The Land Acquisition Information System has been developed and implemented in all District Land Acquisition Collectorates and Offices of the Divisional Commissioners in West Bengal in order to ensure speedy disposal of pending land acquisition cases and help the government save large amount of establishment costs paid as compensation to the land owners. The Information System, developed by NIC West Bengal helps the awardees get the compensation amount in due time from the government without any procedural delay.

From Manual to Automated…

In the manual land acquisition system, preparation of estimates, schedules, calculation, award preparation, award notice and other activities used to cause a tremendous delay in the payment of compensation to the parties, causing a huge amount of interest chargeable on compensation. The dire need for speedy disposal of land acquisition cases led to the design and development of a computerised “Land Acquisition Information System” (LAIS) by the NIC State Unit. The LAIS has been devised in such a way that it keeps complete track of the LA cases, plots and owners of the land. The Software has been implemented to sort out various types of problems existing in the existing manual system. The system follows all the salient features of the West Bengal Land Acquisition Manual, 1991.

Objectives

  1. Creation of land acquisition case level data bank
  2. Creation of plot level data bank
  3. Creation of owner level data bank
  4. Speedy disposal of land acquisition cases
  5. Quick retrieval of case/plot/owner details
  6. Generation of various reports
  7. Simultaneous handling of many cases
  8. Minimizing project/establishment costs
  9. Avoiding unnecessary litigation from likely manual mistakes

Reports Generated

Almost all the required reports are generated starting from Notification to Possession certificate for Land Acquisition cases under State Government and Non-State Govt. agencies. Reports relating to Notification, Declaration, Land schedule, Estimates reports, Calculation Sheets, Award Preparations, Payment Notices, C.C. Vouchers and many other required reports can be generated from this package. Awards can be made within the stipulated time period and with minimum amount of interest on compensation.

Salient Features

  • The software takes into account, only the area of the acquired land. The land values of the owners are calculated as per their shares.
  • The concept of multiple Mouza, multiple JL nos. and multiple sheet nos. have been introduced for entry of plot details under different Mouzas, Jls and sheets.
  • Shares can be entered either in the new ten thousand share system or old ana, kara, kranti system.
  • For structure values and damages the same consideration has been taken into account as in the case of the tree values distribution
  • Provision has also been made in the software for inclusion of details of Bargadar’s Compensation.
  • The removal cost/excavation cost may also be entered into the owner database in damage values and the name of such persons may also be included to the owner database.

Following points have also been considered in developing the package.

  1. One owner may have share in different plots under a particular LA case.
  1. For cases where two or more different plots of a particular LA case have same owner with same shares, provision have been made in the software for entry of the details of any one plot only and its owner details.
  1. The software takes care of the possibility of change of rate at the time of entry.

The Project has been successfully implemented in all the districts of West Bengal as well as for the New Town Rajarhat Township Project.