The Revenue and Land Reforms Department of Bihar has launched an online portal to monitor questions raised in the Bihar Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council and to track assurances the government gives on the floor of the House. On 4 November 2026, Revenue and Land Reforms Minister Dr Dilip Kumar Jaiswal told every district magistrate to update pending records on it within seven days.
The move adds to a run of paperless reforms in the state, in the same week that Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary ordered a fully digital Bihar e-Cabinet file system.
What the Bihar revenue department portal tracks
According to a statement issued by the department, the portal gives real-time visibility of every legislative question assigned to it, including questions referred to House committees, along with the assurances made in reply. Department Secretary Jai Singh has instructed all district magistrates to make its use mandatory and regular.
- Status, remarks, response reference numbers and dates for each pending question or assurance.
- District-wise consolidation of replies, which was earlier pieced together from letters, emails and reminders.
- Reports that can be generated ahead of legislative sessions and committee meetings.
Deadlines and rules for districts
Each district has to nominate a nodal officer. Backlog data must be uploaded within seven days, and after that every update must go in on the same day, or by the next working day, after a reply is sent. A question or assurance will be marked resolved only when replies to all its related points are submitted, and signed responses must still travel through the prescribed official channels.
District administrations and the department will hold monthly reviews of progress. A Hindi user manual has been issued, and district-specific login credentials will be shared separately.
Why it matters for legislative accountability
Minister Jaiswal said accountability to the legislature was of paramount importance and that the portal would make monitoring more transparent, systematic and effective while helping identify delays and fix responsibility. Pending assurances are a recurring sore point in state legislatures, and a single tracker with hard timelines gives the department an audit trail it did not have before.
The portal fits Bihar’s wider push to move routine government work online, from the UPYOG portal linking all 264 urban local bodies to the state’s AI-driven governance vision. Elsewhere, legislatures are digitising from the House side, as seen when the Chhattisgarh Assembly moved to NeVA ahead of its Budget session.
Details of the department’s leadership and its other online services are available on the Bihar Revenue and Land Reforms Department’s BiharBhumi portal.
Key takeaways
- Bihar’s Revenue and Land Reforms Department now tracks Assembly and Council questions and government assurances on one online portal.
- District magistrates must name nodal officers and clear the backlog upload within seven days.
- Updates are due the same or next working day, with monthly reviews at district and department level.
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Featured image: Dr Dilip Kumar Jaiswal, Minister of Revenue and Land Reforms, Bihar. Photo: Mguonlineclass via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)