On December 22, 2020 The 1st of its kind Farmer Registration and Unified Beneficiary Information System(FRUITS)Portal, a project of e-Governance, inaugurated by Government of Karnataka, and the same is integrated with BHOOMI Package of the Karnataka State to fetch and validate land details. Canara Bank becomes the 1st Financial Institution(FI) to take the project on a pilot basis. It is the first of its kind technology adoption from the Karnataka govt to combine all 70 lakh farmers in the state with land and other details under a single platform.
- The launch was done at the NABARD office, Karnataka at an event organised by NABARD.
Note
i.Karnataka State Government and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) identified Canara Bank to launch the pilot project.
ii.If the pilot project is successful, all other FI will be brought into the portal to have a single place where all data relating to the farmers loans are available.
Key Info
FRUITS portal in addition to capturing detail of the land owners also has information about the crops grown, loans got from banks and financial institutions, and other benefits availed from various government schemes.
About Pilot Project
i.All the farmers in this portal will be registered and be provided a FID Number.
ii.The FI and Lending Institutions, on using this number can check the details of the farmers land and their borrowings and take decisions about the lending to farmers on basis of their requirements.
iii.Using this portal, farmers can create the charges via online which avoids them to visit the sub-registrar offices.
Recent Related News:
On 28th October 2020, Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha launched 2 web portals over a virtual platform. The two portals are, Integrated Odisha State Scholarship Portal which provides scholarship to the eligible students and Sumangal Portal provides incentive to inter-caste marriage couples.
About Canara Bank:
Syndicate Bank was amalgamated into Canara Bank on April 2020
Founded– July 1906 by Shri Ammembal Subba Rao Pai.
Tagline– Together We Can
Headquarters– Bangalore, Karnataka
Managing Director(MD) & Chief Executive Officer(CEO)– L V Prabhakar
