Many changes have been made in the Revenue Department by the administration and the most visible change that is people-friendly is the online revenue record. People have appreciated this step taken by the administration. Today every document is made online be it an income certificate or fard. People don’t have to visit offices or find officials and officers.
Recently-written and digitalized jamabandies in each village of Union Territory were made available on an online portal like other revenue documents but when any person wanted to check his land records from this online portal they were not in a position to find it properly. The reason for this is either operator in the Common Service Centre is not capable or the wrong entry has been made. Most of the operators in CSCs are not properly trained. So, the people are asked to visit record rooms for older records and when enquired people say their record is either wrongly written or not available on the portal and say what they should do.
Now orders have been put in place to rectify these jamabandies and make them error free within a stipulated time. Some people are not finding their mutations in these jamabandies as they are yet to be incorporated in revenue records. It is a fact that newly attested mutations will be incorporated in this current record but there are mutations that have been attested decades before and are yet to be incorporated in jamabandies. Now people are frequently asked to bring certified copies of these mutations from the record rooms so that same can be incorporated in revenue records.
Patwaries have started the rectification process and it will be completed in a week’s time but the big question arises why not give at least one month for each village for rectification and directions to be put in place to verify this digitalized record with old records? There is another question that many of these jamabandies were not earlier verified by the concerned authorities properly as their saying is that proper time was not given for verification. Authorities must monitor the process themselves so that the record is made error-free and only taking an undertaking from field officials is not enough.
The writer is In-charge Record Room Anantnag and can be reached at mo**********@***il.com
Rectification of newly-written jamabandies
