Bhubaneswar Land Use Intelligence System - BLUIS

• Odisha becomes the first state in India to use Space Technology and Artificial Intelligence for safeguarding government lands.

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• The objective behind this launch was the lack of adequate transparency and accountability in the current manual mode of mechanism which was being used for decades for the detection of encroachments in government land.
• BLUIS is a geo-tagged repository of all the government lands in Bhubaneswar, created through high-resolution satellite imagery to detect all changes taking place on government lands.
• A mobile application would alert the enforcement authorities of any new construction on government lands.
• The GPS on the application guides the enforcement staff to the exact location. Evidence of enforcement is uploaded on the application as geo-tagged images and videos.

The Litigation Management System

• It is an online application to record information of legal cases and enables end-to-end communication between government officials and advocates during different stages of a case, was also launched.
• It provides a smart technology solution to monitor court cases from initiation, online appointment scheduling, and allotment of the case to government advocate for preparation and submission of counter-affidavit.