Commitment by I.G.R.
Inspector General of Registration and Commissioner of Stamps in Karnataka, Sri D. Sathya Murthy, LA.S., presented lead papers for discussion at the national ICT Consultative Workshop organized by NIRD, Hyderabad on 24th to 26th Feb. 2003. The papers deal with the "KAVERI" an e-govemance project of registration and stamps department for common man in Kamataka.
The papers deal in detail the rampant corruption prevalent in registering department, the modus operandi of corruption, the people involved in corruption. The following is the extract from lead papers:
"It is a common knowledge that the Sub-registrars' Officers in the state have become notorious as dens of corruption. As the corruption which occurs in Sub-Registrars' of- fices will be mostly collusive corrup- tion, where the giver of bribe as well as taker of the bribe would not be ready to complain against each other, in the matter it would not be that easy to secure evidence in relation to such activity.
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In many cases the officers and the personnel in Sub-Registrars' Office's are involving outsiders to help the bribe giver and the bribe taker in relation to their bribing trans- actions, to identify the Officers and officials of the Sub-Registry involved in bribe -taking and bribe giving, becomes much more difficult. "Sub-Registrars' Officers, although they are regarded by the Public as dens of corruption in which corruption is made the way of life of the officers and officials of the sub-Registry, hiring volunteers, the document writers and stamp vendors for the purpose." (Loka yukata)
Corruption has become a inevitable proposition in the Department. General Public believes that nothing moves without greasing the officials. In addition to that there is lot of secrecy that is surrounded around the property valuations though they are more of an open issue. The local committees constituted for this purpose review these rates once in three years and they are published either locally or through gazette.
The confidence level of the public with the department are very low and they do not feel comfortable to approach the Sub-Registrar on their own without they help of the middle man.
The behavior of most of the Sub-Registrars is also highly objectionable as neither they are courteous nor helpful in dealing with the public. Their attitude is of making money ir-respective of any customer and they have no discrimination between the poor and the rich. There are instances where they had been so blatant in demanding money even from reputed journalists and police officers despite disclosing their identities. Some of thesub-registrars went to the extent of stating that they need to pay all themasters and therefore, they need to be paid. Most of them have callous, insensitive and indecent behavioral attitudes which compounds the problem. Once they sit in the chair, they loose their senses and the private business approach dawns in their minds.
Added to this is the problem of volunteers. Volunteers system had taken deep roots since more than a decade and they had been function- ing literally as officials of the depart- ment without any locus standi. Most of these volunteers are either retired employees of the department or the relations of the present serving em- ployees of the department which ac- counts for the large number. The remaining number is due to political influence who are basically unemployed and had found out the vol un- teer job as a means to earn quick money. The real problematic sec- tions of volunteers are the goondas and the criminals from the land deal- ers section who are not only rich but also who can afford to use their muscle power to harass the public and squeeze the money. There is also another section which belongs to the close kith and kin of the serving ministers and kinds of corruption.
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