The income division, Punjab, has handed over the work of registries and mutation of properties again to tehsildars and naib-tehsildars. The powers had been withdrawn after mass protests by the income officers in March.
The income division, Punjab, has handed over the work of registries and mutation of properties again to tehsildars and naib-tehsildars. The powers had been withdrawn after mass protests by the income officers in March. (Getty Photographs/iStockphoto/ Representational picture)
The state authorities additionally reshuffled complete income workers throughout the state and now the state authorities is pondering over rationalising their posting. After the withdrawal of the mentioned work, they had been left with legislation and order duties and common work comparable to issuance of certificates and registration of marriages.
“Gradually things are coming back to normal because the revenue staff have realised that protests doesn’t solve any purpose and they have assured to be a disciplined cadre,” mentioned a senior income division officer on situation of anonymity confirming that the conventional work for income officers has been resumed.
On March 5, the federal government has withdrawn registry work from the tehsildars and handed over the identical to the clerical workers posted within the deputy commissioners’ places of work.
The identical day, the state authorities suspended 15 tehsildars and naib-tehsildars for not performing their official responsibility after which income officers referred to as off their strike, maintaining in view the “law-and-order” state of affairs arising out of the farmers’ protest throughout the state throughout these days. The federal government, nevertheless, withdrew the work of registration of properties from them.
Throughout the identical time (March 4), chief minister Bhagwant Mann gave stern warning to the protesting income officers throughout a media tackle in Mohali. The CM had candidly mentioned that “they wanted licence for corruption, but his government has ‘zero tolerance for corruption’ and will not get blackmailed”.
To date, the suspended officers haven’t been reinstated, and so they have been deputed on work at division’s head workplace in Chandigarh.
Maninder Singh, former president of the tehsildar affiliation, mentioned it’s again to work for everybody and it is occurring at full swing. “However, there are some issues which we are hopeful that the government will resolve soon,” he added.
On March 4, the Punjab Income Officers’ Affiliation suspended the property registration work until March 7 in protest in opposition to the Vigilance Bureau (VB) motion in opposition to some income officers in Ludhiana in a fraudulent land deal. Subsequently, that they had gone on a mass informal go away, affecting registration work and inflicting inconvenience to the individuals.
The protesters additionally introduced that they might not perform property registration work until March 7 however would undertake different works comparable to ‘girdawari’ and mutation. The mutation work, nevertheless, remained suspended for a very long time. “The work was to be given back to them (tehsildars) as they are the master of land records, but government wanted to convey a strong message that work is top priority,” mentioned one other senior officer of the division.
There are at the very least 100 tehsildars, and 200 naib-tehsildars posted in several tehsils of the state and resulting from some vacancies, a number of the income officers are holding twin cost. The federal government then had ordered mass scale reshuffle ordering switch of 235 income officers, together with 58 tehsildars (sub-registrar) and 177 naib-tehsildars (joint sub-registrars), on administrative grounds.