1 INSPECTION NOTE OF SHRI VIPIN SAXENA, IAS, MEMBER, BOARD OF REVENUE, ODISHA ON JALESWAR TAHASIL DATE OF INSPECTION:- INTRODUCTION Jaleswar Tahasil was established in the year, 1953 with a vast area. Subsequently, part of the area was merged with Basta Tahasil in the year, 1967. Again the Tahasil, Bhograi was carved out from this Tahasil during the year, 2007 comprising of 341 villages. Jaleswar Tahasil is bounded by Bhograi Tahasil in the East, Baliapal in the South-east, Basta Tahasil in the south, some parts of Rasgobindapur Tahasil of Mayurbhanj district in the West and the State of West Bengal in the North. The Headquarters of this Tahasil is situated in Jaleswar, a small Municipality town of Balasore District at a distance of about 56 KM from the District Headquarters. BASIC INFORMATION OF TAHASIL OFFICE, JALESWAR 01. Total area of the Tahasil -- Ac 93,151.863 i. Total Govt. land -- Ac 21,950.352 ii. Total Forest land -- Ac 7,016.630 iii. Total Gochar land -- Ac 2,541.190 iv. Total Private land -- Ac 71,201.511 02. Total Cultivated Land -- Ac 61,285.250 03. Total Irrigated Land -- Ac 3146.270 04. Total No of the Village-Rural -- 195 Urban -- 16 Un inhabited -- 58 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total:- 269 (Jaleswar P.S-179 & Raibania P.S-90) 05. Total No of Block -- 01 (Jaleswar) 06. Total No of Municipality -- 01 07. Total No of Police Stations -- 02 (Raibania, Jaleswar) 08. Total No of G.P -- 27 09. Total No. of Z.P. Zone -- 04 10. No of wards in Jaleswar Municipality-- 17 2 INFORMATION ON R.I CIRCLES No. of Distance G.P No. of from Sl. Name of R.I Circle covered Name of the G.Ps villages HQr No. covered (Tahasil) in KM 1 Jaleswar 4 Nachhimpur, Lakshman nath, Rajpur, Aruha 59 0 2 Nampo 4 Nampo, Khalina Sogo, Netua 47 6 3 Paschimbad 3 Baiganbadia, Paschimbad, paikasida 25 17 Rayan Ramchandrapur, Gopi mohanpur, 4 Jamalpur 3 48 7 Bartana Baradiha, Sikharpur, Srirampur, 5 Saradiha 5 35 22 Dakshinapraharajpur, Chamargaon, Khudia Majhi Sahi, Makidia, Olmara, 6 Olmara 6 48 32 Sardarband, Raibania, Kalika 7 Khuard 2 Khuard, Shyamnagar 7 35 Demographic composition (As per census-2011):- Total Name of the Total Sl. No. Male Female SC ST Others House R.I. Circle Population hold 1 Jaleswar 61693 31527 30166 7127 9202 45364 13426 2 Jamalpur 25809 13416 12393 6407 2793 16609 5702 3 Nampo 26507 13716 12791 3183 2057 21267 5969 4 Saradiha 36337 18554 17783 7244 9374 19719 8338 5 Khuard 13805 6825 6980 1137 7466 6102 3182 6 Olmara 38280 19372 18908 7735 11069 19476 9054 7 Paschimbard 27406 14165 13241 10006 485 16915 5993 Total 229837 117575 112262 42839 42446 144552 51664 ACCOMODATION:- Jaleswar Tahasil is functioning in its own building since its inception. The present condition of the building with unsafe asbestos roof warrants immediate renovation. I am told that the repairing work of the building has been taken up by the concerned engineering department recently. This tahasil consists of 7 (Seven) R.I circle which are functioning in its own building. 3 CHARGES:- Sri Rama Chandra Kisku, OAS-I (JB), now Tahasildar, Bhograi is in additional charge of Tahasildar, Jaleswar w.e.f 05.04.17. Sri Kisku was earlier officiating as Tahasildar, Jaleswar from dt. 10.08.15 to dt. 03.04.2017. On his transfer to Bhograi Tahasil, no regular Tahasildar has been posted to this Tahasil. Sri Mahendra Kumar Behera, ORS is officiating as Additional Tahasildar, Jaleswar w.e.f 18.12.15 The works/charges distributed among the Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar for smooth functioning of Tahasil are indicated below. Sl Name of the Works allotted Charges of R.I No Officer & circle Designation 1 2 3 4 1 Ramachandra Establishment, Bill, Budget, Jaleswar, Nampo, Kisku, OAS-I (JB) Nizarat, Record Room, Touzi, Paschimbad all Tahasildar-In- Mutation Cases, Certificate revenue cases charge cases, OLR Cases, OEA Cases, Encroachment cases 2 Sri Mahendra OLR Cases, Mutation Cases Jamalpur, Saradiha, Kumar Behera, and related cases of R.I circle Khuard, Olmara all ORS revenue cases HALF-YEARLY INSPECTION BY TAHASILDAR ON OWN OFFICE The Tahasildar is required to inspect his own office twice in a year. I find that the Tahasildar has not inspected his own office. It is obvious that the Tahasildar is not serious about his duties & responsibilities. Tahasildar is directed to conduct half yearly inspection of his own office regularly. INSPECTION BY TAHASILDAR ON R.I CIRCLES The table below shows inspection made by the Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar on R.I circle for the last 3 years. Year Name of Date of Letter No and Letter No and Date the R.I Inspection Date of release of submission of circle of I/N compliance 2015 - - - - 2016 Jaleswar 4.11.16 - - 2017 - - - - 4 INSPECTION BY ADDL. TAHASILDAR ON R.I CIRCLES The table below shows the inspection made by Addl. Tahasildar on R.I circles during the last 3 years. Year Name of the R.I Date of Letter No. and Letter No and circle inspection Date of release date of of I/N submission of compliance 2015 - - - - 2016 Saradiha 25.11.16 - - 2017 (Up to - - - - 30.04.17) From the above, it is quite obvious that both the Tahasildar & Addl. Tahasildar have not discharged their duties and responsibilities properly. No annual inspection programme on inspection of R.I circle during a year has been chalked out by the Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar though they are required to inspect all R.I circles once in a year under their jurisdiction. The Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar are directed to inspect R.I circles under their jurisdiction in a year unfailingly and submit their inspection report to higher authorities. TOUR:- TOUR PERFORMANCE OF TAHASILDAR AND ADDITIONAL TAHASILDAR According to Book Circular 41 read with memo No. 67280/R dt. 01.10.88 of Govt. of Odisha erstwhile Revenue and Excise Deptt., the Tahasildar is required to perform 150 days tour with 60 night halts in a year in the following manner. Period No of days No of Night halts Jan-March 52 15 April-June 30 15 July-Sept 30 15 Oct-Dec 38 15 150 60 5 The Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar, Jaleswar have performed tours and night halts in the following manner during, 2016-17 Name of the officer Period No of days tour No of Nighthalts Sri Rama Chandra Jan-March,16 53, - Kisku, OAS-I, April-June,16 40 - Tahasildar July- Sept,16 46 - Oct-Dec,16 11 - 150 Sri Mahendra Kumar Jan-March,16 55 - Behera, ORS, Addl. April-June,16 42 - Tahasildar July- Sept,16 43 - Oct-Dec,16 10 - 150 It is revealed from the above that both the officers have performed 150 days tour each during, 2016-17. But they have not performed any night halt. The Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar are directed to make adequate no. of tours as per the Book Circular holding camp courts and making night halts in order to keep close contact with the villagers to solve their problems. REVIEW OF TOUR PERFORMANCES OF TAHASILDAR AND ADDL. TAHASILDAR BY THE SUB-COLLECTOR The Sub-Collector is required to review tour performances of the Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar in every quarter and communicate necessary comments. It is reported that, no review of tour diary has been conducted by the Sub-Collector. The Sub-Collector should review the tour performance of the Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar at regular interval henceforth and report compliance. SUBMISSION OF TOUR DIARIES The Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar are required to submit their tour diaries to the Sub-Collector on the 2nd day of each succeeding month for approval. But, it is found that the same are not being submitted to the Sub-Collector for necessary action. The Tahasildar and Addl. Tahasildar are directed to ensure timely submission of tour dairies to higher authority unfailingly. 6 REVIEW OF TOUR PERFORMANCE OF R.S /R.I’S BY THE TAHASILDAR The Tahasildar is required to review the tour performances of Revenue Supervisors and Revenue Inspectors in each quarter. This has not been done at all. The Tahasildar is directed to review the tour performances of the R.S and R.I’s in each quarter regularly and report compliance to the higher authorities. R.T.I:- The following officers have been declared as PIO and APIO and 1st Appellate Authority in respect of this Tahasil. Sri Rama Chandra Kisku, OAS-I (JB), Tahasildar-1st Appellate Authority Sri Mahendra Kumar Behera, ORS, Addl. Tahasildar-PIO Sri Judhistir Soren, Jr. Clerk-APIO Year No of No. of Total for No. of Balance Application application application Disposal application fee pending at received disposed Collected the during the of beginning Year of the Year 2014-15 136 304 440 263 177 Rs. 2,870/- 2015-16 177 368 545 403 142 Rs. 3,630/- 2016-17 142 226 368 357 11 Rs. 2,160/- up to 30.04.2017 It is seen that 11 nos of applications are pending till end of April, 2017. Prior to that, 142 application were pending till end of March, 2016 during, 2015-16 and 177 applications till end of March, 2015 during the year, 2014-15. It is surprising as to how so many applications are kept pending when there is provision of imposition of penalty in force as per the RTI Act. The PIO is directed to dispose the pending applications immediately. No Appeal petition is pending before the Appellate Authority under the RTI Act. 7 MAINTENANCE OF REGISTER Registers as prescribed under paragraph 96 of the MTA are being maintained in this Tahasil office.