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Project Punarvas, Andhra Pradesh

Introduction
For any development, land acquisition forms the primordial activity and it is proved by the fact that,
since 1990, almost 35 Lakh acres of land is acquired across the country for various projects taken up
under „public purpose? till date under Land Acquisition (LA) Act. Land intensive sectors like irrigation
projects, mining, power, SEZs, ports/airports/other public infrastructural projects etc. are the primary
growth engines to usher in economic activity.

Experience also shows that, these mighty Land Acquisition Projects usually involve massive
Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) and by the virtue of the scale of economics, many middlemen
and vested interests crop in the implementation of LAR & R provisions. These extraneous elements at
times even prove detrimental to the entire project per se.

Hence, it is felt that, there is a need to cut the Discretions, Delays and Data asymmetry [the 3Ds which
generally plague the LARR processes]. With the change in legislation, in the form of RFCTLARR Act
2013, it is even more imperative to automate things and steer Accountability, Transparency and
Responsibility.

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computerized database management system for capture,
storage, retrieval, manipulation, analysis and display of spatial (i.e. locationally defined) data. GIS is
composed of layers of spatial information. There can be different types of data. Everything is referenced
to a coordinate system e.g. latitude/ longitude.

The main objective of the software designed to implement LARR provisions in the Srikakulam district is
to computerize all the important activities under land acquisition and R&R process and integrating the
geo spatial data of the project affected area on designated dates [like the PN, DD etc.,]. Thereby, it
provides the flexibility for data storage, retrieval and decision support systems. It also provides the
biometric authentication of beneficiaries and GIS data of the assets being acquired.

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