Minister of Income Krishna Byre Gowda interacts with Hindu in Bengalur. | Photo Credit: Sudhakakara Jain
Karnataka has now become a model for the country in terms of income dispute resolution, because the state drastically reduced the number of “delayed” cases that were waiting for the deadline, before the courts of Tahsildar and the auxiliary commissioners.
This has led to a significant social impact by reducing the burden of dispute, financial expenses and harassment for farmers, because more than 95% of such cases have achieved legal finalities without being made before higher courts or civil courts.
The rules stipulate that disputes before the Tahsildar courts should be destroyed within three months, while another higher authority of the assistant courts should dispose of these cases within a maximum of six months. However, the number of cases of delay before these courts was huge throughout the country.
Drastic reduction
The Minister of Income Krishna Byre Gowda pointed out that Karnataka had 10,774 cases of delay before the Tahsildar courts and 60,000 before the assistant courts when he took over the ministry in 2023.
The Minister told the Hindes that it is possible due to a special focus on regular and real-time monitoring and reviews on friendliness. All cases have been entered into the Case Monitoring System (RCCMS), which is a web application for monitoring ongoing cases.
The revenue department has launched measures against those who failed on board ongoing cases of RCCMS and those who have delayed the disposal of cases. Officials were told to even issue orders regarding cases via RCCMS.
Social impact
Reducing the trailer has led to a significant social impact because this drastically reduced the number of cases withdrawn from higher income authorities or stood on the courts, Gowda said, stressing that only 3% to 5% of cases after the Tahsildars courts were eliminated.
“Farmers can now focus on their work instead of a repeated visit to income offices,” he said.
According to him, the center recognized Karnataka’s success during various official meetings, while several states sent their teams to Karnataka to learn from his experiment.
End-to-end integration:
The income department also ensured the end-to-end digital integration of the income management system for the first time in a country that brought transparency, responsibility and fast action. Within this system, the matter automatically gets before the income courts if the damaged parties object. This system allows the parties to display the status of the case online. The income courts will have to issue orders in digital format that would be automatically made in RTC.
The department has introduced the “automobile mutation” system that automatically makes changes in RTC (other than ownership) without having to submit any request or to make physical visits to offices with respect to nine areas. “We have now shortened the time it takes to make changes in land records in these cases from the earlier system of weeks to just 12 hours,” the minister said.
Similarly, in the case of ownership of ownership involving registered documents, there is a need for a seven -day notice, while those with unregistered documents need a notice period of 15 days. In both cases, the changes will be made two days after the notification period is completed.
Published – 1 June 2025 9:04
