100 sub-registrar offices deemed ‘most sensitive’

100 sub-registrar offices deemed ‘most sensitive’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:28.11.2021

A total of 100 sub registrar offices (SRO) spread over the state have been identified as the most sensitive offices, where sub registrars cannot continuously function for more than one year as the registration department has introduced categorisation of the SROs. The new guidelines have been rolled out with an aim to arrest irregularities during registrations.

Out of the100 'most sensitive' SROs, 38 are located in Chennai zone comprising the city, Chengalpet, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts. Some 200 SROs are categorised as sensitive offices, and 275 as normal offices. A sub registrar will work in the most sensitive SRO for a year, followed by three years at normal offices, before being posted in a sensitive SRO, as per the new norms. The categorisation is based on the volume of documents registered and revenue generated in the respective SROs. The move is aimed at averting registration officials preferring to work in high income generating urban centres, which is leading to competition among them, enhancing transparency and eradicating irregularities during registrations, a government order said.

In a recent government order, registration secretary B Jothi Nirmalasamy said that sub registrars must work in sensitive and normal SROs for a period two and three years, respectively. On the other hand, the state government has decided to accord administrative sanction for providing two more IP cameras in the record rooms in all the 575 SROs at an estimated cost of Rs5.97 crores. It is aimed at curtailing the movement of touts and arrest illegal activities, another government order said, adding that the IP camera facility was conceived with various objectives including remote monitoring of activities of SROs from the headquarters and respective zonal offices. Currently, SROs have three IP cameras installed including the entrance.

The move is aimed at averting registration officials preferring to work in high income generating urban centres, which is leading to competition among them