National Land Commission Secretariat (NLCS) is at the forefront among agencies in Bhutan that
have
leveraged the potential of ICTs for enhancing efficiency in government
functioning. The implementation of ICT based system in NLCS goes back to 2012 with the
implementation of
Rural e-Sakor,
an online system for the rural land transaction. In 2013, NLCS implemented another online
system (Rural
eSakor) for processing the rural land transaction.
The term eSakor is translated as `e' meaning 'electronic', `Sa' meaning 'land' and Kor is
'about'. It is
an integrated land information service portal.
NLCS has been trying to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in implementing on-line systems
for
providing services to the citizen of Bhutan, and with more experiences,
over the years NLCS has been improving a lot.
In 2015 NLCS in collaboration with IDA International, Singapore and Department of IT and Telecom
did a
thorough diagnosis of the systems and documented them. In 2016,
the rural land transaction system was re-developed covering all the deficiencies found from the
previous
system with additional modules, features and functionalities with
financial support from World Bank. In 2018, the rural land transaction system re-development was
carried
out.
From now on, all the systems will be all under eSakor Portal which will have rural land
transaction system,
rural land transaction system, land mortgage system,
land related grievance redressal system and online land tax payment system.