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| J&K People suffer as Revenue Department stops settlement process | | Purpose of creation of new administrative units five years back defeated | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 17: The Jammu & Kashmir government has a habit of taking up projects and then abandoning the same for the reasons best known to them. In this whole scenario the common man is the sufferer with nobody listening to him.
Sources told Early Times that some years back the then state government started the settlement operation in order to make the process of land settlement smooth across the length and breadth of the state. The brain child behind winding up of the settlement operation and consequential loss to the department is yet to be identified and this is no more than a million dollar question. "The settlement process was virtually stopped by the government and the posts manning the operation were winded up. The whole operation came to a standstill and no headway was made in this regard. Due to all this the messy state of affairs has not come to an end in the Department of Revenue," said the sources.
It would be in place to mention here that the department in 2014 established as many as 135 new administrative units after corresponding reduction of posts of Tehsildars of settlement operation. The same put to halt the ongoing settlement operation in the state and turned up as a setback to the updating of revenue records. Sources said that on one side the state government is stressing hard on the officers of the department to provide services at the door steps to the people and on the other side the mismanagement of the cadre by the controlling authority is seriously impacting the functioning of the department.
"As the demands of the work force in the department are not being fulfilled the working has gone haywire thus leading to problems for the common masses. The cadre management has gone for a toss in the department and no serious effort is being taken to the streamline the whole system in the Department of Revenue," said sources.
Sources said that the ill conceived mechanism adopted by the officers at helm have stifled programmes aimed to bring about modernization of land records in the state. They said the programmes are taken up without the application of mind with the same resulting in failure of such programmes.
"Another attempt to derail the programme is the re-engagement of retired officials and officers to undergo digitization of land records under Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP). The sensitive record preparation should have been assigned to the in-service officers from within the cadre rather than relying on the persons who have already attained superannuation," said sources.
The same could be gauged from the serious note taken by the Department of Land Resources Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India in this regard. The central department has reprimanded the Department of Revenue, Jammu & Kashmir for the sluggish pace of progress on this count. |
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