Bhubaneswar, September 11: In a significant step towards making revenue administration more transparent, accessible, organised and citizen-centric, the Board of Revenue, Odisha on Friday launched its new website and quarterly journal.
Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari unveiled the new initiatives in the presence of Member, Board of Revenue Satyabrata Sahu and Secretary Laxmikant Sethi, along with senior officers of the revenue administration, officers from various departments and employees.
Information relating to major revenue institutions such as the Commissioner of Land Reforms, Commissioner of Land Records and Settlement, Commissioner of Consolidation and Inspector General of Registration (IGR) has also been made readily accessible through the websitehttps://boardodisha.in.
The quarterly journal published by the Board of Revenue is envisaged as a new knowledge-based initiative in the field of revenue justice
It may be noted that the journal of the Board of Revenue was earlier generally published annually. Since the number of important case decisions was comparatively limited, significant orders were compiled and published at the end of the year in the form of an annual compilation.
However, in the last eight months, around 11,000 cases have been disposed of by 41 Revisional Courts functioning under the Board of Revenue. This significant increase in the pace of case disposal has led to a change in the earlier annual publication system and has provided the impetus for introducing a quarterly journal.
The journal will feature important and landmark orders relating to revenue laws, land disputes, correction of land records, classification of land, title, possession, mutation, leases, Government land and other complex revenue matters.
This will enable the decisions of the Board of Revenue to serve as an authentic and easily accessible reference for Revenue Courts at the field level and for revenue officers working at various levels of the administration.
For a Tahasildar, Additional Tahasildar, Sub-Collector or any other revenue officer dealing with a complex revenue case, the decisions of the Board of Revenue in cases of a similar nature can serve as a valuable guide for them. This will facilitate the proper application of law, consistency in decision-making and greater transparency in the judicial process.
The two initiatives - the new website and the quarterly journal are complementary to each other. While the website will take information and services of the Board closer to citizens, the journal will disseminate the experience, knowledge and jurisprudence of revenue justice across different levels of the revenue administration.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister Pujari said that these two initiatives marked the beginning of a new chapter in making technology, information and judicial knowledge more widely accessible within the revenue administration.
To further expedite revenue case disposal rate, new Revenue Revisional Courts will be inaugurated in Jajpur, Kendrapada and Baragada very soon.
