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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2020.09.007

Land Registration: Use-case of e-Governance using Blockchain Technology  

Veeramani, Karthika (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering)
Jaganathan, Suresh (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.14, no.9, 2020 , pp. 3693-3711 More about this Journal
Abstract
e-Governance is a medium to offer various services to citizens through a web portal, that exists in many countries nowadays. The existing e-Governance technology is a vast, centrally managed database and a set of applications that connect to it via web interfaces. Despite the modernisation of services, it remains with the lack of transparency. Thus, the existing infrastructure of e-Governance paves the way for corrupt practises by the bureaucrats. e-Governance needs a powerful underlying technology which doesn't provide any way to allow tampering of the record and which in turn eliminates corruption. In this paper, we took land registration as a use-case for building e-Governance by keeping Blockchain as an underlying technology, to put off the corrupt practices and to bring transparency. Once transactions in land registration added to the Blockchain, it is immutable as it is cryptographically secured. Besides, the blockchain technology is secured as the ledger is distributed over the network. If a hacker wants to modify the ledger, he needs to hack every node in the blockchain network. Hyperledger Fabric, a permissioned Blockchain adopted for implementation and Hyperledger Caliper for performance analysis with these evaluation metrics such as throughput, latency and execution time.
Keywords
Blockchain Technology; Distributed Ledger; e-Governance; Land Registration;
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