Bengaluru’s TDR system will be fully digitised to simplify land acquisition for road widening and new roads, Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda said after directing officials to create an online process covering verification, certificate issuance, transactions and final utilisation.
The direction was issued at a meeting with officials at Vikas Soudha on Monday. Gowda said the city’s rising traffic congestion made road widening and construction of new roads urgent, but the existing paper-based TDR process had created delays, limited tracking and a lack of transparency.
According to the minister, the absence of a clear tracking mechanism had contributed to public dissatisfaction and reduced trust in the TDR system. He directed officials to digitise the process from the preliminary submission of road and property details through the various verification stages and the eventual issuance of the TDR certificate.
The proposed platform is also expected to cover the purchase and sale of TDR and its final utilisation. This would extend digitisation beyond the approval of certificates and create an online record of how transferred development rights move through the system and where they are ultimately used.
The department said an online system would allow citizens to track the status of their files without relying on repeated visits to offices. The reform is also intended to reduce paper documentation, unnecessary delays and the involvement of intermediaries in the process, according to the account of the meeting published by Vijay Karnataka.
TDR is linked to the acquisition of land required for public infrastructure projects. In the process described by the minister, landowners whose properties are affected by road expansion can receive development rights that may subsequently be transacted or used. The proposed digital system is therefore intended to connect property records, road-related details, verification, certificate issuance and later TDR activity within one platform.
Gowda said the reform would help restore confidence among landowners and the wider public while making the process more workable and citizen-friendly. He also said faster and more transparent processing would help the city complete the land acquisition required for major infrastructure intended to improve traffic movement.
The announcement, however, concerns a directive to begin the digitisation process rather than the launch of an operational platform. The supplied report does not specify the technology provider, implementation cost, launch date, service-level timelines or the department responsible for maintaining the final digital system.
Officials present at the meeting included commissioners Ramesh D.S., Pommala Sunil Kumar and Ramesh K.N., as well as J. Jagadish and Bengaluru city CEO R. Yathish. The next milestone will be the preparation and implementation of the digital workflow covering TDR verification, certification, transactions and utilisation.
