This is irony for the people of the State that they still have to pay a hefty extra amount to get Government works done. Even renowned people like former Hockey India player Ashunta Lakra had to pay Rs 5,000 for her work at a circle office in Ranchi.
Lakra had to visit three times the Circle Office to get the receipt. Lakra said that after repeated efforts, she got success to get the land revenue receipt. “Getting the receipt is not easy task. I visited the office two times. My husband visited offices two times and in third attempt, I got the receipt,” she said.
Talking about the difficulties, she faced, during the process Lakra said, “A middleman had demanded Rs 5,000 for the receipt and my husband had given him the amount to complete the work at its earliest but the middleman did not give us the receipt. Two day earlier on the direction of administration, the Circle Office held a camp to provide easy land solution and my husband visited the office but the Staff did not take the issue seriously.”
“When Land Revenue Secretary, KK Soan, got the information that I am facing problem in getting the receipt, he asked Ranchi Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rai Mahipat Ray to look into the matter and then, I got the receipt after intervention of the DC,” said Lakra.
Speaking on the issue, Ranchi DC said that the District Administration will file a first information report against the middleman.
On June 27 at various Circle office of Ranchi District ,a Land Revenue Camp was organised. Several cases were solved on the spot related to dispute in land revenue but a large numbers of cases are pending due to anomalies in the land revenue records.