Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 15: To review the functioning of Revenue Department, Deputy Commissioner Ramesh Kumar today chaired a meeting of the senior officers of the department.
The meeting was attended by ADC Jammu, Rishpal Singh, ACR Jammu, Sanjay Kumar Badyal, SDM South Jammu, Shrikant Suse, SDM North Jammu, Satish Sharma, SDM Khour, Devinder Paul, SDM R.S.Pura, Jagdish Singh, SDM Marh, Tarik Naik, SDM Akhnoor, Gopal Singh, SDM Chowki-Chowra, Ravinder Sharma and all Tehsildars of district Jammu.
A threadbare discussion was held to finalize revised stamp duty rates. Tehsildar concerned apprised the meeting about the area wise hike in stamp duty rates. The DC asked the Tehsildars to submit the final stamp duty rates within a week.
Meanwhile, the DC also discussed the land acquisition and requisition cases of army. Tehsildar concerned apprised the DC about the progress of cases. The Deputy Commissioner directed the Tehsildars to resolve all the land acquisition and requisition issues.
The meeting also discussed compensation cases for the land acquired for Ring Road and Jammu Akhnoor Road projects. He directed the tehsildars for immediately disbursement of the compensation amount to the owners where the final awards have been issued.
The DC instructed the officers for early completion of land acquisition cases, preparation of Jamabandi, attestation of mutations. Tehsildars were impressed to direct the Girdawars and Patwaris of their jurisdictions to prepare Jamabandi and other revenue records.
The DC also reviewed the progress of community and individual bunkers in border tehsils of district jammu. The DC asked the Tehsildars for monitoring and expedites the construction of bunkers.
Deputy Commissioner also reviewed progress made on grievance redressal especially of public grievances routed through Governor grievances & advisor grievances forums. He also stressed upon officers for early redressal of these grievances through special camps by dedicating special days for public hearing.
DC directed all Tehsildars to frame an action plan for removing the encroachments from State and Kacharai Land in their respective areas in time bound manner. He gave strict instructions for timely disposal of revenue cases and public grievances.