Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday, 23 July 2026, virtually launched the 'Mee Bhoomi-Blockchain' pilot project from the Andhra Pradesh State Secretariat, marking a significant step towards tamper-proof digital land records in the state. The initiative, developed jointly by NIC Andhra Pradesh and the Centre of Excellence in Blockchain Technology at NIC Bengaluru using Hyperledger Fabric technology, aims to eliminate double registration, fraud, and disputes over land ownership.

Context

The post from the Chief Minister's Office of Andhra Pradesh announced that the state's Revenue Department has designed a blockchain-based system to provide 'శాశ్వత భద్రత' (permanent security) to land records. Each land parcel will be assigned a unique digital ID, enabling tamper-proof, secure transactions. The system is designed to serve as a 'Single Source of Truth' for all land records, bringing the Revenue, Survey, and Registration departments onto a single unified platform.

The pilot will be rolled out across seven mandals: Aspari (Kurnool district), Penumuru (Chittoor district), Repalle (Bapatla district), Gannavaram (Krishna district), Kadiyam (East Godavari), Gummalakshmipuram (Parvathipuram Manyam), and Kothavаласа (Vizianagaram district).

Policy Backdrop

Andhra Pradesh's Mee Bhoomi portal, launched in 2015, was among the country's earliest state-level efforts to digitise land records and reduce manual tampering. It built on the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme, a central initiative dating to 2008 that aimed to computerise and integrate land records across all states.

Blockchain adds a cryptographic, decentralised layer on top of existing digitisation — meaning no single actor can alter a record without consensus across the network. Multiple Indian states have explored blockchain for land titling, but a government-backed pilot of this scale, developed by NIC with Hyperledger Fabric, represents a more institutionalised approach than earlier experimental efforts.

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, who has consistently positioned Andhra Pradesh as a technology-forward state across his tenures, framed the launch as part of a broader push for transparent, citizen-centric governance through digital public infrastructure.

Stakeholders and Impact

The primary beneficiaries are landowners and farmers across Andhra Pradesh, who have historically faced disputes arising from double registration, forged documents, and inconsistent records across departments. A blockchain-anchored system with unique digital IDs for each parcel would make such fraud structurally far harder to execute.

Revenue officials across the seven pilot mandals will operate the new platform, which merges functions currently split between the Revenue, Survey, and Registration departments. Minister Anagani Satya Prasad, Chief Secretary G. Sai Prasad, senior officials from the three departments, and district collectors from the pilot locations attended the launch event.

For the broader real-estate and legal ecosystem, blockchain-backed records could reduce the volume of property litigation that clogs civil courts — a persistent problem in land-record-intensive states like Andhra Pradesh.

What's Next

The government will evaluate outcomes from the seven pilot mandals before deciding on a statewide rollout. Key metrics will include the reduction in double-registration cases, turnaround time for land transactions, and citizen grievance rates. Any legislative move to formally recognise blockchain records as legally valid documents would be a critical downstream step. The success of this pilot could also serve as a template for other states looking to modernise land administration through decentralised ledger technology.