John Wilbert
Port Blair, July 18: In the direction to be more citizen friendly, transparent and accountable administration and in its endeavour for better Governance and Service delivery, the District Administration is in continuous process of amending the mechanism & procedures for better delivery of services to General Public.
Addressing a press conference today the Deputy Commissioner of South Andaman, Mr. Udit Prakash Rai today said that to ensure the same, various steps are being taken by the department so as to minimize the public grievances.
The DC said that in issuance of e-forms the South Andaman district Administration has done really good and according to him by removing an existing superfluous verification level, the verification of e-applications will speed up and thereby will shorten the actual service deliverance period.
He said that every level of verification / approval of e – application / manual application will have to be cleared by the concerned Patwari / Revenue Inspector / Tehsildar. in a decided time bound manner like 04 days , 03 days and 03 days respectively. Individual responsibility will be fixed against concerned Patwari / Revenue Inspector / Tehsildar in case of any delay / deviation from the said decided time period.
To ensure zero level tolerance and to monitor daily Pendency at each level i.e at the level of Patwari , Revenue Inspector and Tehsildar, the reporting system of the software have been modified suitably.
He said that due to shortage of Revenue Surveyor, around 200 number of demarcation applications are pending.
“To reduce such pendency, the existing and newly recruited Patwari and all Revenue Inspectors will be given a proper training of survey and demarcation,” he said.
Regarding recruitment, the DC said that the process of recruitment of Patwari has been completed in fair and transparent manner by the department and recruitment of Surveyor has been initiated. It will be completed in time bond manner by September, 2018.
The DC also elaborately discussed about various other measures taken by the District Administration in this regard.
