IT helping Karnataka farmers
Bhoomi project - Computerisation of Land Records - of the Karnataka State is using IT to bring accountability in the city administration and utility agencies. Land taxes are the largest sources of revenues of India's state budgets and the whole bureaucratic process was used for personal enrichment of some of the local administration clerks. The use of computers and biometrics authentication system for updating of land records have freed farmers from the worry of probable manipulation of their records by sometimes unscrupulous officials. The land record delivery system is now operational in nearly all sub districts of Karnataka.
It is not surprising that this project was created in Karnataka. Bangalore, the province's largest city, is known as the software capital of the developing world. Big IT corporations like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle have offices and training facilities there.