PUNE: The state government has decided to renovate 50 of the 516 sub-registrar offices, a registration department official said.
“The 50 offices will be renovated in by providing them with new furniture and fixtures and interior works. These will be done in the first phase. There are proposals from some districts to shift the old new offices to new premises. The state government will release funds as per the proposals,” said a senior property registration official.
The government had announced that it would allocate funds for the facelift of these offices as there were several complaints from citizens.
Consumer activist Shrikant Joshi told TOI that they have been raising the issue about poor infrastructure at all the sub-registrar offices for the last ten years. “The department is considering renovating just 10% of the total 516 offices. They should in fact renovate all the offices,” he said.
“Earlier, too, a decision to renovate these offices was taken by the previous government. However, it has remained on paper,” added Joshi.
Suchit Upadhyay, an IT professional who was at one of the offices, said that it is surprising that the department that generates maximum revenue has to wait for long to upgrade its infrastructure.
An official from the sub-registrar office said that renovation of all the offices was required, if services have to be improved.
At present, around 25 lakh documents are registered annually and each of them is scanned and stored physically as well as in digital libraries.
Following complaints from citizens regarding inadequate facilities at the property registration offices in the city, the property registration department had earlier sent a proposal to the state government to shift nine of the 27 property registration offices to new locations.
These offices are at Hadapsar, Vishrantwadi and Erandwane, among other places. Inadequate space and lack of facilities have been cited as reasons for shifting, said an official from the property registration department.
The proposal has been submitted and is awaiting approval, the official said.
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“The 50 offices will be renovated in by providing them with new furniture and fixtures and interior works. These will be done in the first phase. There are proposals from some districts to shift the old new offices to new premises. The state government will release funds as per the proposals,” said a senior property registration official.
The government had announced that it would allocate funds for the facelift of these offices as there were several complaints from citizens.
Consumer activist Shrikant Joshi told TOI that they have been raising the issue about poor infrastructure at all the sub-registrar offices for the last ten years. “The department is considering renovating just 10% of the total 516 offices. They should in fact renovate all the offices,” he said.
“Earlier, too, a decision to renovate these offices was taken by the previous government. However, it has remained on paper,” added Joshi.
Suchit Upadhyay, an IT professional who was at one of the offices, said that it is surprising that the department that generates maximum revenue has to wait for long to upgrade its infrastructure.
An official from the sub-registrar office said that renovation of all the offices was required, if services have to be improved.
At present, around 25 lakh documents are registered annually and each of them is scanned and stored physically as well as in digital libraries.
Following complaints from citizens regarding inadequate facilities at the property registration offices in the city, the property registration department had earlier sent a proposal to the state government to shift nine of the 27 property registration offices to new locations.
These offices are at Hadapsar, Vishrantwadi and Erandwane, among other places. Inadequate space and lack of facilities have been cited as reasons for shifting, said an official from the property registration department.
The proposal has been submitted and is awaiting approval, the official said.
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