BENGALURU: The state government on Saturday made public the notification signed on August 29, re-instating the mandate to ensure all revenue court proceedings are digitised. Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Rajendra Kumar Kataria, told The New Sunday Express that revenue courts are already following the practice and orders were issued to digitise the process, digitise the filing of processing and High Court directions but was not done. Due to this many complaints were coming.
Now a notification was issued on August 29, making it mandatory to ensure end-to-end digitisation.
The Revenue Court Case Monitoring Management System (RCCMMS) order stated that all applications should be filed online, the fee payment should be online and people should also view the details online.
The signature of revenue officers should be online and there should be no physical movement of files.
The revenue courts should also ensure that all court proceedings are digitally recorded and stored. Kataria said the government aims to digitise all 100 crore revenue records of A and B category properties by February 2026. So far 40 crore records have been digitised.
He said revenue secretariat office, offices of the DC, RC, taluk offices have been digitised. Work is on to digitise all tahsildar and village accountant offices. The aim of the exercise is to reduce public interface and corruption, he added.