Revenue Lok Adalats to held across state on December 1- 2
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Shimla, November 20
Himachal Chief Minister, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, on Monday directed the deputy commissioners to settle the pending revenue cases of mutation, partition and demarcation of land by January 20, 2024. The decision was taken after the high power committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister today reviewed the pending revenue cases in the state. The Chief Minister asked the Chief Secretary to regularly review the revenue cases pending at the level of divisional commissioners. “The Revenue Minister will also review the progress of this matter in the entire state before January 20, 2024,” he said.
Directing the DCs to dispose of the pending cases on mission mode. the Chief Minister said that a large number of revenue cases were pending in the state, which need to be resolved immediately and all the officers should take immediate steps to resolve the cases.
The Chief Minister said that the government was committed to the service of the common man and to solve their problems was our first priority. “Every revenue officer, right from Naib Tehsildar to Divisional Commissioner should hear and resolve the pending revenue cases on daily basis and ensure their timely disposal and this will also be reflected in the ACR of all the concerned officers and officials,” he added.
He said that the state government held ‘Intekaal Adalats’ on the 30-31 October throughout the state and out of 41,907 pending cases, 31,105 were disposed of on priority. He said that similar Adalats (courts) would be organised on December 1 and 2 in the State, which has been now named ‘Revenue Lok Adalats’, in which all the pending mutation and the partition cases would be settled on priority.
The Chief Minister said that all the deputy commissioners were directed to send the complete report of the cases disposed of on a monthly basis to the state government, containing the name, address, and phone number of the applicant and other details in tabulated form. He said that the deputy commissioners should also hold meetings with the revenue officers in their respective districts and prepare a strategy for speedy disposal of the pending revenue cases. He also directed to rationalise the staff as per the requirement and said that all the appointments or dates, for hearing of revenue-related matters, should not exceed to more than three days. “To overcome the shortage of staff in the districts, the state government will also allow deputy commissioners to hire retired Kanungo’s”, he said adding that the services of summons can also be done through electronic means.