It was a day of great learning. There was one more problem that needed to be licked, the resurvey of our land holdings had to be verified for its correctness and we'd left it for the penultimate day of our stay out here. Rema, Mini and I had set off by about 9. Mini was dropped enroute where she could hop on to a bus towards Sanil's house but not before she'd dropped the offering at the 'Nagaraja temple' at the junction - a task that was insisted upon by mom, always!
We, then, drove off straight to the Land Records verification cell and picked up a token that gave us the date to address our grievance on the 31st. Rema had inquired at the counter as to whether people like us who stayed far away, at present, had any option to avoid a revisit within a short span of time. It was, then, that he'd asked us to visit the place around 1400 hrs and so, we returned home soon after.
Before I progress with the proceedings, it's my bounden duty to say a thing or two about the survey which was carried out almost three years back, the salient features of which were as follows:-
(a) It was the UDF government's idea of defining existing land holdings to ascertain excess land
that could be allotted to the landless in the state. A noble idea!
(b) It was gonna be the first step towards digitizing the state's land records. A great step!
(c) A lot many personnel of the government staff were recruited for the purpose but they made a
hash of it as there have been complaints galore from the public about the resurvey, the notable
among them being:-
(i) The ownership has been wrongly depicted, quite a few of them exist under the previous
owners!
(ii) The area of the holdings are grossly wrong!
(iii) Holdings have been wrongly represented!
(d) How did this happen? Poor training of the people tasked and a general lack of interest among
remunerators.
There's another interesting aspect at such conglomerations. One is brought down to ground level as no amount of contacts, among the team that's doing the corrections, can enable one to short cut the system. Secondly, one's 'status' in society carries no meaning as the aggrieved customers cover a wide range of economic sections of the society and following the simple etiquette of awaiting one's turn is the only decent way out!
Our persistence helped and by the end of the day we could get our work done. The ownership of my parents' land holdings is correct but the total area has been shown less by four cents. A letter of redressal affixed with a court fee stamp, along with the copies of the title deed and the copies of the instruments depicting the tax paid, thus far, need to be submitted at the cell, tomorrow.
Tailpiece.
1. We head for Guruvayur only after that. It's gonna be a long day tomorrow!
2. Radhan chettan has shown signs of improvement at the Amala Hospital, thank God!
We, then, drove off straight to the Land Records verification cell and picked up a token that gave us the date to address our grievance on the 31st. Rema had inquired at the counter as to whether people like us who stayed far away, at present, had any option to avoid a revisit within a short span of time. It was, then, that he'd asked us to visit the place around 1400 hrs and so, we returned home soon after.
Before I progress with the proceedings, it's my bounden duty to say a thing or two about the survey which was carried out almost three years back, the salient features of which were as follows:-
(a) It was the UDF government's idea of defining existing land holdings to ascertain excess land
that could be allotted to the landless in the state. A noble idea!
(b) It was gonna be the first step towards digitizing the state's land records. A great step!
(c) A lot many personnel of the government staff were recruited for the purpose but they made a
hash of it as there have been complaints galore from the public about the resurvey, the notable
among them being:-
(i) The ownership has been wrongly depicted, quite a few of them exist under the previous
owners!
(ii) The area of the holdings are grossly wrong!
(iii) Holdings have been wrongly represented!
(d) How did this happen? Poor training of the people tasked and a general lack of interest among
remunerators.
There's another interesting aspect at such conglomerations. One is brought down to ground level as no amount of contacts, among the team that's doing the corrections, can enable one to short cut the system. Secondly, one's 'status' in society carries no meaning as the aggrieved customers cover a wide range of economic sections of the society and following the simple etiquette of awaiting one's turn is the only decent way out!
Our persistence helped and by the end of the day we could get our work done. The ownership of my parents' land holdings is correct but the total area has been shown less by four cents. A letter of redressal affixed with a court fee stamp, along with the copies of the title deed and the copies of the instruments depicting the tax paid, thus far, need to be submitted at the cell, tomorrow.
Tailpiece.
1. We head for Guruvayur only after that. It's gonna be a long day tomorrow!
2. Radhan chettan has shown signs of improvement at the Amala Hospital, thank God!
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