Use of Mobile SMS in Land Titling System in Odisha, India Kishor Kumar Behera World Bank’s Land and Poverty Conference Scaling up Responsible Land Governance March 14-18, 2016

Landscapes of presentation Land administration and major land issues in India and State Landes’s collaboration with government Mobile SMS Pilot in state Rationale and advantages Challenges and opportunities Up-scaling of Mobile SMS Pilot

How do we work ?

Land administration and issues in India Department deals with-Revenue department/Land reform cell Legal Provisions Land is a state subject Issues: Extent of landlessness and ways to address it

Land governance issues in Odisha,India Addressing landlessness Absence of uniform enumeration Titling process takes long time Lack of uniform tracking mechanism Inadequate data on land possession Non-transparent titling process

Land administration-Decisions! Minister RDC District Magistrates ADM Sub-Collector(s) Tehsil land Official Revenue Inspectors Tehsil Land Officer Secretary State Level State Level Regional Level District l Level District Level Sub-Divisional Level Sub-District Level Village Level

Landesa’ s collaboration with Government –Prior to Pilot Enumeration- Community Resource Persons Model Providing land title Joint/exclusive titling Policy changes Orissa Scheduled Areas Transfer of Immovable Properties Act, 1956

Enumeration – Mobile SMS Pilot Two districts-three tehsils (sub-districts) 246 villages with 44 CRPs 16,059 households 13 Revenue Circles 6,056 identified landless households

Mobile SMS Pilot Partners in Land Titling State Govt. SIMLab Landesa Google Foundation Orissa Scheduled Areas Transfer of Immovable Properties Act, 1956

Pilot objective To help Revenue Department function more efficiently – providing land title 10

Rationale for using mobile SMS Manage trainings and other events in land titling system Quick and easy track to monitor progress Generate short reports for reviewing program progress Management District and tehsil Support Coordination Circle BS Monitoring and review Sub-Division Tehsil 11

Steps monitored using SMS Household and land survey-F1 & F2 { VC, Number} List of landless households-F3{ VC, Number} Verification of identified households-FV{ VC, Number) Submission of proposal-PS{ VC, Number) Patta (title) preparation and distribution-PP &PD{ VC, Number) 12

Major milestones Land Title Distribution Verification Identification 13

Advantages of using mobile SMS Helps to know the status and alerting about next steps Saves time Makes each stakeholder accountable to perform task as per schedule Helps systematic data management and report generation Uniform information sharing 14

Challenges Mobile connectivity How-to use of SMS – ground level officials Pre-paid - zero balance Cost of SMS Transfer of government officials Discontinuance of CRPs Change of mobile number Interruption in internet connectivity 15

Opportunities Linking to target groups-post titling services Gender segregated data Creation of data base; data -transfer and management Managing large scale titling 16

Up-scaling to five additional districts Tracking identification of homesteadless households 51 tehsils (sub-districts) 331 Revenue Circles Institutionalising -RIs replaced CRPs Targeting 50,000 landless households 17

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