STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Lauding efforts of Dr Raghav Langar, Divisional Commissioner Jammu to order lodging of an FIR against Revenue Officers/Officials responsible for missing of basic revenue documents of all kind of lands from record rooms of Revenue Complex, Jammu; the members of Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) has termed it as an endorsement of its repeated demand for constitution of a High-level committee of revenue experts to probe the major land scam as well as sheer violation of Agrarian Reform Act 1976, particularly in respect of DPs’ settlement. Speaking during a meeting, JKSAC members urged Lt Governor Manoj K Sinha and Principal Secretary Revenue, Shaleen Kabra to take cognizance of the serous issue as it is the right and appropriate time to put a rein on such erring revenue officials, particularly Tehsildars and Patwaris involved in illegal activities.
While speaking during the meeting, President Gurdev Singh along with Dwarka Nath Khajuria, Tarlok Singh Tara, Capt Puran Singh and D N Raina said that how credible it may sound but it is a harsh fact that Revenue Department is itself a Government in itself. “Revenue officers/officials are Government employees and get salaries from public exchequer, but they work as per desire of non-players. If proper investigation will be made, Government will be astonished to find that every Patwari has engaged two to three retired Patwaris to ease their work and are paying them salaries, which is looted from pockets of suffering common man. They violate law and change records merely for personal gains. Their unlawful activities compel DPs and other suffering people to go for unnecessary litigations and after years of such litigation, when orders are passed by Courts or tribunals, same are not implemented by many Tehsildars and Patwaris,” they alleged.