(People waiting registration work)
Appointment of Sub Registrar in Tehsil Bathinda fails to serve purpose
By Amrit Pal Brar
Bathinda, 19 September 2019: The appointment of Sub Registrar in Bathinda Tehsil appears to be a failure to provide any relief to the people of the district if one scrutinizes the functioning of the city Sub Registrar office.
Last year, 20 additional posts of dedicated Sub Registrars were approved by the State Government on the directives of the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh to provide hassle-free property registration services to the people.
The aim of the these appointments was to provide a full time mechanism to accelerate the registeration work without any hurdle as the the Tehsildars and Naib Tehsildars are many a times put on some other duties, such as to assist the DC, ADC in talks with protesting unions and other protocol duties.
The other main objective of this endeavour of Punjab government was to strengthen and streamlining the functioning of revenue department that would go a long way in easing out the workload despite of bringing greater efficiency in the department.
If you make a visit to the city Sub Register office, you will gather an impression that this office has badly failed to fulfil the objectives of the state government to provide hasslefree delivery of services to the citizens of the area. Few self speaking pics are being posted with this despatch post.
Last week this correspondent had an incident visit to this place to meet Tehsildar with some personal work, who was on abroad visit as told by staff. Later, the correspondent made a call to Naib Tehsildar, who replied, that he was on protocol duty with Revenue Minister at Lakeview club.
To an utter surprise, even the Sub Registrar was not available in the office and around 200 people were sitting in the seating areas of the complex for registration works. It was 4.00 pm in the evening of 13th September, 2019.
Without success or a result to meet Tehsil officers, at 4.30 pm, this correspondent messaged the Deputy Commissioner for intervention along with self speaking pics of the scenario. But, he did not reply. On earlier occasions too, he never replies to any good or important message.
At 4.40 pm the matter was brought to the notice of CPS Suresh Kumar, who immediately intervened and the registeration work started.
Will the Punjab Chief Minister look into this matter?
