1. 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

2. 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

3. How do we work ?

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Major milestones Land Title Distribution Verification Identification13

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. 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

18. Thank you for your time kishorb@landesa.org