Taking illegal transfer of government land across state very seriously, the Chief Secretary (CS) Rajbala Verma on Saturday directed all Additional Collectors (AC) of the state to prepare a report over such transfers. In a review meeting, she said to the ACs to hold meeting with the circle officers. The CS has strictly directed all ACs to identify such pieces of land block-wise which have been illegally transferred, and prepare reports related to this by 30 June, anyhow.
Verma said that 40,145 incidents of illegal transfer of government land have been pointed out so far in the state. A total of 1, 21,483 acres of government land have been illegally transferred in the state by fraudulent ways.
CS ordered ACs to remove all those block-level employees who are inefficient at submitting reports of illegally transferred lands and to prepare a list of retired employees to be hired in place of them to get the work done in time.
Verma also directed officials to prepare a data of the identified land by July 15 and upload it on the website. She said to define responsibilities from block-level employee at bottom to ACs at the top involved in preparing reports. She also directed the concerned department to take action for an Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) led enquiry of how 103 acres of land was illegally transferred in Bokaro.
The CS directed that all necessary action be taken to get Khas Mahal land lease-owners their lease renewed. She also said to take all routes of advertising to keep them informed about when and where is the department organizing a camp for this. She also said to organize the camp thrice a week.
Verma said the officials to make sure that compensation is paid to 'rayats' without any delay after their land has been acquired for developmental works anywhere in the state. She said that a sum of Rs 2,145 crores is pending in the accounts for distribution, and it has not been paid to rayats against their land yet, which is not good. She said the department to form a state level cell for distribution of compensation, and a progress report should be sent on daily basis from every ACs.
Verma said to ensure disposal of around 4,000 cases which are pending in SAR Courts in not more than 3 months and directed ACs to monitor and direct officials regarding the same.
On the issue of computerization of land records, the CS directed all ACs to accelerate the process and get it done anyway by October this year. She said to increase manpower if and when needed, so that processes like online mutation, integration and online receipt dispensing could be started as soon as possible.