Chairman, Board of Revenue, UP, Sanjiv Kumar Mittal reviewed the works of Varanasi division at a meeting of officers here on Monday. He also discussed share assessment and inheritance matters in detail tehsil-wise and expressed happiness over the work done in gharauni (rural house deeds) matters. He directed the concerned Revenue department officers to increase the share fixation from the present 50-60 per cent to 80-85 per cent.
He took detailed information from all the SDMs and tehsildars about the rate assessment done by the tehsils and also learned from them the problems faced in rate assessment and their suggestions for increasing rate assessment.
He asked everyone to work with full focus and to speed up the work by making full use of manpower and computer resources.
“The work should be expedited wherever there is no dispute,” he said, asking the Additional Commissioner (Administration) to monitor and speed up the works of gharauni while talking to the Geographic Information System (GIS) survey. Mittal expressed dissatisfaction over more than 11,000 pending revenue cases and asked the concerned AC (Admn) to expedite the works by regularly reviewing them.
Speaking on the occasion, Divisional Commissioner (DC) Kaushal Raj Sharma said that due to increasing urbanisation in Varanasi city, many villages have been included in the limits of Nagar Nigam.
A total of 88 new villages have been included in Varanasi city,” he said, adding that due to having many sub-account holders in one account, there are problems in determining the share, which is being divided village-wise by appointing accountants.
District Magistrate S Rajalingam, while mentioning the work done in the allocation of shares in the Badagaon block, apprised Mittal of the obstructions being faced in this direction. He was also informed about the survey conducted in 1,138 villages regarding khatauni (document of land) and the problems faced in the survey conducted in 199 villages.
In the meeting, the DMs Aryaka Akhoury (Ghazipur), Anuj Kumar Jha (Jaunpur) and Nikhil Tikaram Funde (Chandauli) also gave the details of their respective districts in the meeting.
In reply, the Chairman, Board of Revenue, asked everyone to speed up the process of share determination, house-keeping and directed to organise workshops for information through National Informatics Centre (NIC).
While reviewing Section-24 in the meeting, Mittal said that if there are four to five cases from one village, they should be dealt with together. Expressing displeasure over the rejection of more than 18,000 applications in Varanasi district, he asked the concerned officers to rectify them and directed the DM to look after the same himself.
He said that it is the main reason for the increase in Inspector General of Registration and Stamps (IGRS) cases and directed the concerned officers to settle the matters related to the Investor Summit on priority so that there is no unnecessary delay in setting up industries. ADM (Administration), SDMs and Tehsildars were also present in the meeting.