Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palik (BBMP) is in the process of implementing the e-Aastha system in 97 wards in the core zone. However, the roll-out is having an impact on the issuance of sour extracts and khata certificates and collection of property tax arrears by 2007-2018.
In a press release on Saturday, BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad urged the citizens to cooperate with the civic body and bear with the delay in issuing the requisite property documents. The reason for the delay is attributed to the transfer of the data set of properties from the old system to the E-Aastha system.
In November last year, the BBMP implemented the e-Aastha pilot in three wards – Nilasandra, Shantinagar and Shantinagar – in the Shantinagar division. The project is being implemented with the aim of bringing more transparency, preventing illegal transactions and cutting out middlemen, besides giving a digital avatar to the property documents.
BBMP officials said that the benefits of e-Aastha are manifold. Impersonation is avoided during registration because property documents will bear the owner’s photograph and illegally created property documents can be easily identified. For example, a Khata certificate issued under the new system would contain 46 different types of information. The documents will be digitally signed, barcoded and uploaded to DigiLocker.
The release said that under the first phase, e-Aastha system is being implemented in all the 100 wards of the core zone. Under the second phase, it will be implemented in wards falling under the newly added areas – Mahadevapura, Yelahanka, Dasarahalli, Bommanahalli, Rajarajeswaranagar.
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