After introducing a policy on purchase of land voluntarily offered for development projects, Haryana Government on Tuesday launched a web portal to provide a database of such available land and land sale offers in the State.
Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar launched “ebhoomiharyana.org.in”, a web portal developed by Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) for purchase of land voluntary offered to the government for projects.
Khattar informed that on February 6, the State Government had notified a policy for purchase of land. The policy is aimed at preventing distress sales of land by farmers and involving the landowners in decision making while locating the sites of development projects in the state.
The web portal is a landmark initiative of the Haryana Government to transform the way land is procured in the state for public purposes. It would help in preventing distress sale of landowners by offering State Government as the potential buyer, said he.
“The portal would help in matching the land requirement of Government with voluntary offer of land by landowners and creating data base of such available land,” he added.
Apart from the land owner, aggregators, who are registered under the Haryana Regulation Act, Property dealers and Consultant Act, 2008 and rules made there under, can also offer land against demand of any State Government Department.
Raja Sekhar Vundru, Managing Director, HSIIDC informed that five departments have already uploaded their land requirements on the portal and once advertisement is issued by the concerned department, land owners would be able to offer their land against the requirement of the departments.