Citizens can pay land revenue online anytime anywhere through e-Pauti portal () and Mobile App (PAUTI). The process assures citizens with more choices at hand and ensures saving of time, money and dispenses physical journey to revenue offices. Over 6.25 lakh e-Certificates have been issued online since its launching on 28th December, 2019. Similarly, e-Registration application has been integrated with DigiLocker so that registrant public can pull their documents registered after 4th January, 2010 and store in their DigiLocker for perpetuity.

Integration of e-District Portal with DigiLocker for sharing the digital copy of certificates has been facilitated. This has earned the goodwill of people and eased the process of governance in the matter. How far have the people been genuinely benefited by the implementation of 5T in the Revenue Department?Īs per direction of Hon’ble Chief Minister to trust the goodness of people rather than integrity of our processes, Resident and Income Certificates are issued basing on self-declaration of applicants and documents without RI enquiry. In an interview to The Pioneer, Sethi spoke to Sugyan Choudhury on many issues concerning the Revenue Department. He hits the bull’s eye with effortless ease. Sethi remains at the vanguard of the Revenue Department to inflict crushing blows to land grabbers in urban pockets and is committed to weed out corruption by implementing the 5T programme. Under his leadership as Director, OSDMA, Odisha had climbed to soaring heights in handling multiple disasters. He has bagged the President’s Silver for successfully conducting the 2011 Census in Odisha. The Institute of Economic Studies has conferred upon him the Udyog Ratan Award. He was chosen for receiving the International Star Award for Leadership in Quality (ISLQ) in Paris in 2015.

Sethi has lent Midas touch of gold in his areas of assignments by bringing about meaningful changes focusing on effectiveness, sound financial discipline and leadership. He began his journey as Sub-Collector, Project Director, DRDA, Collector in the KBK region and then became Secretaries to different departments. His engineering skills and ingenuity has had been providing necessary impetus in handling the departments with perfect adroitness during his administrative career. He was called for to join the Indian Administrative Service of Odisha Cadre after his MTech in Industrial Engineering from a reputed national institute at Mumbai. A senior IAS officer, Bishnupada Sethi is currently the Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management, Odisha.

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