Bhubaneswar: The State government has asked all Collectors to take steps to make the revenue field staff deliver satisfactory public service in a transparent, efficient and time bound manner.
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Revenue and Disaster Management, Deoranjan Kumar Singh has written a letter to all Collectors in this regard today.
He said the duties & responsibilities of the Revenue Inspectors (RIs), Assistant Revenue Inspectors (ARIs) & Amins weigh considerable significance in fulfilling the aims & objectives of the State Government so far as revenue administration is concerned.
These employees are instrumental in extending services to the public in general & tenants in particular at the cutting edge of the Revenue Administration, Singh said.
“However, it is a matter of serious concern that the Revenue field staff like RIs, ARIs, Amins are sometimes not performing their duty properly for which a good number of grievance petitions are being received at the Government level regarding this matter,” the ACS wrote to the Collectors.
He informed that a large number of allegations are being received from the public that these field staff are continuing in one place for several years, keeping their reports pending in mutation, conversion cases and not discharging their duties properly and efficiently.
They are also being posted in their own Tahasil which is not proper for an impartial administration, he pointed out.
The General Administration Department has already issued instructions in September 2019 to all Collectors to review the services of staff and take appropriate action for premature retirement of non-performing/poor-performing field staff.
Therefore, Singh directed the Collectors to review the status at their level and report to the Revenue Department regarding the action taken in the last four years.
He also mentioned in the letter that the Revenue & Disaster Management Department in a letter issued in 2017 directed that to maintain accountable, transparent and proper administration, all the employees working in a particular office/ seat for more than three years need to be transferred.
The Collectors have been directed to furnish a report of the staff, who have not yet been transferred and continuing in a particular office for more than three years.
Besides, the government has also asked them to take steps to instruct the Tahasildars to review & submit the quantitative achievement figures of all Revenue Field staff & take appropriate corrective and punitive measures to improve the situation & ensure an accountable, transparent, responsible and responsive Revenue Administration in the State.