Balangir: Online land mutation was extended to two tehsils in the district from last week as part of the state revenue and disaster management department's move to implement the facility across the state.

Balangir sub-collector Bhairab Singh Patel and Titilagarh sub-collector Girish Chandra Singh inaugurated the online service at Tusura and Titilagarh tehsils respectively.

Earlier, the e-mutation programme was successfully implemented in seven tehsils - Boudh, Jatni, Khurda, Nayagarh, Chhatrapur, Phulbani, Nayagarh and Jharsuguda - on a pilot basis.

Durlabhananda Sarbhangia of Tusura was the first person from the tehsil to process his case online.

Sarbhangia said he knew nothing about the services, "but I am told that it is hassle free and quick."

"It usually took a great deal of time to process the work manually," he said.

Tusura tehsildar Suchita Puspa, aditional tehsildar Chandramani Nag and revenue inspector Pradeep Mishra were present on the occasion.

Sources said e-mutation involved communication between the sub-registrars' office and the tehsil through a specially developed string of characters that can be sent to the server only from an authorised mobile number. The server generates a unique code, which has to be registered in the records of rights. The entries will regard mortgage of land or addition of names and ownership change.

Titilagarh tehsildar Suman Kishore Dungdung said earlier, the mutation services used to take up a long time because of a lot of paperwork.

"Land mutation used to be a time consuming affair as it involved a lot of paperwork. With the advent of online services, land mutation will become quicker. It will not only help in maintaining transparency, but also quick disposal of cases," Dungdung said.