Key facts
- The Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) will digitize its land management and plot allotment process within 100 days.
- The initiative aims to improve transparency, streamline investor services, and strengthen record management.
- An Integrated Land Management System is being developed by the state's e-Governance Department.
- The digital platform will offer real-time access to comprehensive plot data, including investments and employment generated.
- The project seeks to eliminate duplicate compensation payments and allow remote investor access to information.
Karnataka's industries minister M B Patil announced that the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) will digitize its entire land management and plot allotment process within the next 100 days. This initiative is intended to enhance transparency, streamline services for investors, and improve record management.
Patil, chairing a departmental progress review meeting, directed officials to complete the digitization within the stipulated timeline. The project involves bringing all details of industrial plots across existing and new areas under an Integrated Land Management System, developed by the state's e-Governance Department. Each plot will have 77 data fields capturing comprehensive information.
The digital platform will offer real-time access to details such as plot allotments, utilization status, investments made, employment generated, compensation paid to landowners, and pending litigation. The minister highlighted that past issues with legacy record management led to duplicate compensation payments, which the new system aims to prevent.
This digitization effort is expected to enhance transparency, reduce irregularities, and allow investors to access information remotely. Karnataka has 224 industrial areas, and records for thousands of plots will be scanned. The project aligns with the government's broader goal of introducing citizen-centric reforms in the Industries Department.
Officials were instructed to complete the scanning of allotment records in older industrial areas within a month. The digitized records will then be shared with the e-Governance Department for software development and later integrated with the Rural Development Department's e-Swathu system for services like e-Khatas and land approvals.