Board of Revenue Revisional Courts in Odisha to Move towards Paperless System

Cuttack: Raj Kumar Sharma, Member, Board of Revenue inaugurated the Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS) version 2.0 today in the Board of Revenue.

Speaking on the Occasion, the Member directed the Board of Revenue to closely work with the National Informatics Center (NIC) to move towards paperless functioning to help the litigants approaching the Revenue Courts for land records and matters relating to Record of Rights.

He also directed the Presiding Officers of the Revisional Courts to maintain transparency and give priority to service of public.

In the upgraded version 2.0 the entire process of filing of Revision cases till disposal of the same has been made online and is a step in the right direction of going paperless.

A Petitioner can file the Revision Case himself/herself online or through his/her Advocate, pay the requisite court fee and other fee as prescribed online, as iFMS was integrated with the Software in collaboration with Government in Finance Department and the Directorate of Treasury.

The CCMS 2.0 is also integrated with Bhulekh for fetching Hal Record of Rights from Land Records database. Once the petitioner files a case, a login ID and password is provided for future login and checking the status of the case as and when required. Starting from generation of Case number to the final order everything has been made automatic and online.

Board of Revenue currently with 39 Revision Courts functions for disposal of case related to Land Issues. During the last calendar year a total of 91,409 number of cases were heard and 14,285 number of cases were disposed off which is the highest in the last five years.

Suresh Kumar Vashisth, Commissioner, Land Records and Settlement-Cum-Chairperson Sub Committee on CCMS, Dr. Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya, Secretary, Board of Revenue. and Pabitra Pattnaik, Senior Technical Director, NIC, Bhubaneswar were present with other Officers.