Khattar govt to recruit 1,200 patwaris

Pradeep Sharma

Chandigarh, February 10

The Khattar government seems to have found a perfect antidote to tackle strikes by patwaris. In view of the strike by patwaris that ended recently, the state government has decided to recruit 1,200 revenue patwaris.

To work on ‘Lal Dora’ project

• The recruitment of 1,200 revenue patwaris will help nomalise revenue-related work hit by patwaris’ strike
• Besides routine revenue work, new recruits would be deployed to complete revenue work for ‘lal dora-free’ project
• The new recruitment will help mitigate shortage of staff in the Revenue Department
• The new recruitment will also blunt Opposition’s attack on government in the Budget session beginning February 20

To be recruited on a contract basis through the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Limited (HKRNL), the new recruits will be utilised for revenue-related works, including preparation of revenue work for the “lal dora-free” initiative, a dream project of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to make Haryana the first “lal dora-free” state in the country.

Sources said the DCs had been asked to send requisition for the recruitment of revenue patwaris on the portal of the HKRNL through the nodal officers especially appointed for facilitating the recruitment of the contractual staff in respective districts.

A senior functionary said the state government wanted to kill two birds with one stone through the recruitment of 1,200 patwaris. One, the new staff would help the state government in ensuring normal functioning of the Revenue Department, which was badly hit during the recent strike, inconveniencing thousands of residents across the state. Second, it would also fulfil one of the demands of the Revenue Patwar and Kanungo Association that had been demanding the filling of vacant posts.

Scores of revenue-related works, including registration of sale deeds, mutation work, domicile certificates, caste certificates, kisan credit cards and girdawari, were hit after January 3 after members of the association went on strike in support of their demands. The demands included revision of pay scales, filling the vacant posts besides other demands.

Political parties, including the Congress, the INLD and AAP, had thrown in their lot with the agitating patwaris. The parties decided to take up their demands in the forthcoming Budget session of the state Assembly beginning February 20.

In the backdrop of this, the BJP-JJP government wants to speed up the recruitment process. The recruitment process would also be accelerated, the functionary added.