Now, track status of applications at Estate Office through SMS

Chandigarh, June 24

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At the second suvidha camp organised by the UT Estate Office at Community Centre, Sector 8, here, UT Adviser Vijay Kumar Dev today launched a SMS-based service that will enable applicants to know the status of their cases. Under this service, a person needs to type ch-est-application ID and send the same by SMS on 9223166166 in order to know the status of his/her case as to with whom the file is lying at the Estate Office so that one does not need to visit the office.

“As part of the Smart City concept, the new exercise will empower the applicants to know the status of their applications, which earlier was a Herculean task,” said the UT Adviser. Dev said to reduce interface between the lower staff and the applicants, which leads to unethical practises, power of information technology (IT) was being used. He advised UT Estate Office employees to be more sensitive to public issues.

In order to ensure that works of the residents of Chandigarh are being done in a scrupulous and timely manner, the Adviser announced the calendar of suvidha camps to be held in the coming days.

During today’s camp, around 222 cases were disposed of relating to three sectors, which include 34 cases of transfer of ownership, 10 cases of sanction of building plans/revised building plans, 15 cases of lien marking of banks, 11 cases of issuing of public notices in order to transfer the ownerships, besides more than 12 applications under the Right to Information Act. Many of the cases were already disposed of by the Estate Office.

Among those who were issued documents were Krishna Mohan, a former UT Home Secretary, who had applied for revised layout plan of his house in Sector 8, and Milkha Singh, former Olympian, who had applied for the transfer of share of his house in Sector 8. Representatives of both officers received the documents.

Prince Dhawan, AEO, said some of the cases were lingering for the past more than two years, which have been decided and disposed of judicially within a short period. — TNS