Generally Revenue Department is considered the mainstay of the State administration. It carries sensitive duties directly involving the people and their interests. This is the department which is supposed to have widespread presence across the State. The Deputy Commissioner of a District is considered the eyes, the ears and the hands of the Government. Actually it is the elaborate staff under him that has to function in a way to represent the Government in its multifarious activities.
Incidentally, it is reported that the Revenue Department has 30 posts of Tehsildars lying vacant for many months. Of these 27 vacancies are in Jammu region. Tehsildar is the Executive Magistrate and is a very important revenue functionary at the head of the tehsil or the sub-unit of a district. In absence of the revenue officer, the output of work in the district suffers considerably. The brunt is to be borne by the people of the district. It arrests developmental schemes and projects. We learn that the process of filling these vacancies had been started during the rule of the Governor. Why that process has been stopped is not clear. At present the Deputy Commissioners of concerned districts have given the charge of vacant posts to another Tehsildar as additional charge as a make-shift arrangement. This cannot go on indefinitely.
We would like to entreat the Revenue Minister to expeditiously fill the vacant posts of Tehsildars and others so that difficulties of people in rural areas are mitigated.
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