The Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari on August 6, 2019 launched Bidder Information Management System (BIMS) and Bhoomi Rashi and PFMS linkage.
- These are two IT initiatives of the Road Transport & Highways Ministry that are aimed at expediting pre construction processes relating to bidding and land acquisition respectively.
- The Minister also announced institution of Annual Awards for Excellence in National Highways Projects from this year onwards.
About BIMS
- BIMS is aimed at streamlining the process of pre-qualification of bidders for EPC Mode of contracts for National Highway works with enhanced transparency and objectivity.
- The portal will work as a data base of information about bidders, covering basic details, civil works experience, cash accruals and network, annual turnover etc.
- The pre-qualification of bidders can be assessed from data already stored in the portal, so that technical evaluation can be carried out much faster.
- BIMS will be used by all the project implementation agencies of the Ministry for maintenance of technical information of civil works of contractors/ concessionaires, and for online technical evaluation of civil works bids.
About Bhoomi Rashi
- Bhoomi Rashi, the portal developed by MoRTH and NIC, comprises the entire revenue data of the country, right down to 6.4 lakh villages.
- The entire process flow, from submission of draft notification by the State Government to its approval by the. Minister of State for RT&H and publication in e-Gazette, is online. The portal, created for expediting the process of publication of notifications for LA, is now being fully utilized for issuing the notifications, and more than 900 notifications have been issued using the portal so far.
- Bhoomi Rashi portal has been instrumental in reducing the time taken for approval and publication of notifications pertaining to land acquisition
- Integration of Public Financial Management System (PFMS) with Bhoomi Rashi is one of the key functionalities to facilitate payment related to compensation for land acquisition to all the beneficiaries directly through the Bhoomi Rashi system.
- PFMS is a web-based online software application developed and implemented by the Office of Controller General of Accounts (CGA). to facilitate sound public financial management system for Government of India (GoI) It provides various stakeholders with a real time, reliable and meaningful management information system and an effective decision support system, as part of the Digital India initiative of GoI.
- With integration of Bhoomi Rashi with PFMS, payment of Compensation by the Ministry to the beneficiaries will be just-in-time, and without any parking of funds. The testing of this integration was done through a pilot project in Jaipur RO of MoRTH for and the system is being now rolled out to all other regional offices of MoRTH and NHIDCL.
Sir, It is another step of goodness by our most respected Highway Minister Shri Gadkari Sahib for speedy process of land acquisition for development of the nation and payment of compensation through the reliable and meaningful management system as per example at Jaipur. Perhaps it may be followed by the junior functionaries responsible for this job. Most projects are being done through the state PWDs and competent authorities are appointed for compensation purposes . After distribution of compensation at the initial stage as per awards passed at their sweet will ignoring important relevant judicial prounancements even clear guide lines of the state Cabnet on faulty procedure for evaluating market price, the farmers of the country are walking door to door to get justice for years together. None of the authority is ready to reply for its implementation about the important orders issued by the Ministry viz. on compensation matter guidelines dated 27-12-2017 or for the missing plots as per the guidelines dated 15-3-16. at PIA/CALA level for months and years together and are not ready to solve the discrepancies even are not ready to read the instructions which could be solved by click of the button as is being stressed by our minister viz bhoomi rashi. A system has been created for not doing the work, only forward the complaint to the authority who is already at fault , without any guidance and compliance on the matter is not monitored at all . How long the farmers are to suffer in the hands of faulty system ? Can there be a time frame for disposal of the complaint in the relevant act ?