Sarthak Kanjilall
Port Blair, July 02: Notifying the land valuation of the villages coming under the South Andaman District by leaving two major villages viz. Minnie Bay and Dairy farm have left several residents of both areas to suffer.
Residents of the aforesaid villages allege that due to this blunder of the Revenue Department, they are forced to run from pillar to post for the last six months in the Revenue Department requesting a valuation certificate.
To the utter dismay of the residents of these villages, till date, the Revenue authorities have allegedly done nothing to solve their own mistakes, committed around a year ago.
“No staffs of the Revenue Department are coming to help and trying to avoid us as much as they can, henceforth, I had no other option left to write a letter to the Deputy Commissioner, South Andaman, requesting him to add these two villages in the list of stamp duty chart,” said a villager of Dairy Farm, who does not want his name to be quoted.
Andaman Sheekha approached a senior officer of the Revenue Department in this regard and who, on the condition of anonymity, said that the matter is already in the knowledge of the Department and a note has already been sent to the concerned staffs in the Secretariat.
“Once the procedure is completed in the Secretariat a new notification will be published ending the trouble for the residents of aforesaid villages,” the senior officer added.
It is already around a year that the Revenue Department has not rectified the mistake done, the residents now demand that the department to publish the new chart at the earliest, so that they can sell their lands.
