Haryana Chief Minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday launched a web portal, ebhoomiharyana.org.in, for purchase of land voluntarily offered to the government for development projects. 

He said the policy was aimed at preventing distress sale of land by farmers and to involve the landowners in decision making while locating the sites of development projects in the state.

The twin objectives of the policy are sought to be achieved by establishing a mechanism whereby, a farmer before considering distress sale is assured of approaching the government as a potential buyer for its projects the government can elicit if some landowners would be so keen about the benefits of a particular project that they would be willing to sell their land to government for it, Khattar said.

He said it would help in preventing distress sale of landowners by offering state Government as the potential buyer. 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, the CM added.

Through this portal, a state government department can upload their land requirement for development projects with details like total land requirement, feasible area, nearest land mark  and the land owners would be able to view the requirement on a google map through the portal. 

The land owners can enter their land sale offers on the portal either against specific demand by the government department or on their own without any specific demand.

The portal has been designed in a user friendly manner and land owners will be able to access the portal in Hindi also. The land owner requires just his mobile number to access the portal and an OTP is sent on his mobile number, the CM said.

The land owner is required to enter basic details of land ownership and upload a copy of jamabandi and Aks-sajra of the offered land. The portal shall soon have linkage with the land records data base of the State government.

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.