The repositories of land statements — the Khatiyan and Register 2 — got a fresh lease of life here in Palamu when under order of the DC Shantanu Kumar Agrahari a rectification drive was launched online wherein out of a total of 2,200 complaints related to the Khatiyan, around 1,700 were resolved in one day.
Agrahari said, “A special drive was launched in the circle offices here in the district. The errors in the Khatiyan and Register 2 were rectified on the Jhar Bhumi Portal.”
Agrahari said the manual rent receipt and online rent receipt sometimes show glaring discrepancies which were rectified online in this drive.
He said improper recording of land details which is done manually in Register 2 were also rectified.
DC has asked the lower rung revenue officials like rajswa karamcharis and circle inspectors to be extra cautious and careful in matter of land details maintenance.
DC said, “Our administration’s prime priority is to ease the work of mutation and in every Sarkar Aap Key Dwar programme my special thrust has been on the land
revenue stall where comes in the petitions, complaints and grievances with regard to mutation etc.”
He added, “Our additional collector revenue P K Prasad invariably addresses the gathering at the Sarkar Aap Key Dwar programme urging people coming for mutation to avail the facilities then and there on the spot and this strikes a good rapport with the needy people there in this kind of programme.”
A senior police officer refusing to be identified said, “Had mutation and land disputes here in Palamu been addressed properly in the past then there would not have arisen any extremism here as the root of extremism here lies in land.”
The Pioneer for the sake of news chanced upon a Register 2 of a ‘Halka’ of Chainpur circle where on a particular page of this Register 2 there were ample evidences of tampering with land details.
DC agreed that propriety in recording or insertion of land details in Register 2 must be done in all fairness and transparency.
There is a 100 page plus Mutation Law which is the blue book for mutation.
A normal case of mutation where the seller sells land by registered deed has mutation to be done in the name of the buyer within 30 days but where the very sale of land by registered deed called Kebala is challenged then in the event of disputants of the sale of that land for mutation in the name of the buyer can be initiated only when the seller gives an authentic Family Tree of him as no mutation of land is done if there is any lurking dispute over land.
The State land revenue department has show-caused more than half a dozen DCs of the state and 30 COs too for dilly dallying in matters of mutation and other rectification works related to land records where Palamu DC and its COs figure no where to which DC Agrahari said, “We could not be there on the show cause list as right from day one we were too pressing for mutation works to be done at war footing.”