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Raipur, August 18 (HS). Commercial Tax and Finance Minister O.P. Choudhary today inaugurated the mobile based application Sugam on Sunday. In this application, any person can go to the property site of his registered document and enter the photo of the site from 3 sides and the latitude and longitude geographical location in the registry software. This will help significantly in preventing property related fraud and tax evasion.
Also, Mr. Chaudhary reviewed the work of the Registration Department. The review meeting was held at the Ministry Mahanadi Bhawan, Atal Nagar Nava Raipur. Minister Mr. Chaudhary instructed the departmental officers that the Registration Department is a department directly connected to the public. Create such a work culture that the public does not face any kind of inconvenience. Parties wishing to register should not face any kind of problems. Stop the entry of middlemen in the Registration Department and ensure that the public can register any document without middlemen. During the review, when the facts of unnecessary delay in stamp cases and registration came to light, he instructed the concerned District Registrar and Sub Registrar for timely resolution.
Minister Shri Chaudhary told the officers present that as public servants, they have got an opportunity to serve the public. The country is now moving from a developing economy to a developed economy and the contribution of officers and employees is important in this journey. Therefore, all officers and employees should work with positive thinking, be honest and show transparency, so that they can become partners in building a developed India.
During the review, Minister Shri Chaudhary thoroughly reviewed the comparative data of revenue receipts, documents, RRC cases, stamp cases etc. During this, departmental officials informed that the work of scanning old documents has almost been completed and in a few days, the search and copy module of the registration department will be made completely online. With this, any person will be able to search old documents and download copies online by paying the prescribed fee online without coming to the office.
During the review, the officials informed that work is going on rapidly towards making the work of the registration department cashless, paperless and faceless. Payment through net banking and POS has been started for payment of registration fee. The work of model deed generation is going on rapidly through software. With this, any person can automatically prepare the documents of model registry by filling the desired input, so that the registry process can be made paperless. Integration of PAN card has been done. In its next phase, the work of integration of Aadhar is also going on. After Aadhar integration, the practice of witnesses coming to the registry office will end and incidents like registry by pseudo and fake persons can be stopped. The department's target is that in the first phase of faceless in the next 01 month, Housing Board, RDA and Colonizers should get this facility. For this, the trial will be completed soon. With this, the parties will get the facility of getting the registry done without coming to the registry office.
Minister Shri Chaudhary said that middlemen should be completely eliminated from the department. He directed that the District Registrar should compulsorily inspect all major documents up to the prescribed limit of 10 percent. He said that tax evasion with the help of registration officers will not be tolerated in any way.
Minister Mr. Choudhary directed that in any case the guideline rate in Chhattisgarh is lower than other states. In such a situation, the district registrar and sub-registrar will ensure that the market valuation should not be done at a rate lower than the guideline. The registered stamp cases will be resolved within 1 month. The stamp refund process will be ensured within 1 week. The outstanding revenue will be recovered by running a campaign. All major documents will be compulsorily inspected on the spot but no document will be kept pending for arbitrary time for site inspection.
Minister Mr. Choudhary directed that the setup of the registration department should be revised so that the public work is completed with speed and precision. The number of registration officers should be increased by 4 times in Raipur, Durg and Bilaspur districts where 60 percent of the state's total revenue comes. There are 260 vacant posts against the sanctioned posts of 505 officers and employees in the department. He directed to immediately fill the vacant posts. He directed to immediately send a proposal for building construction in the sub-registrar offices that do not have buildings. Minister Mr. Choudhary also directed to install CCTV cameras and biometrics in all offices.
