The Deputy Commissioner's office here has taken a leap forward in using the Internet by making files related to the Revenue Department accessible on the website www.dk.nic.in.
Deputy Commissioner V. Ponnuraj said that files related to land conversion, land grant, land lease, licence for quarrying and possessing guns, renewal of licences for theatres, administration of temples, elections, and so on have been made available on the web page.
The web page has a search option and files can be accessed by typing the file number. However, if the file number is not known, files can be searched by typing the subject or name of the place.
With this, people need not visit the Deputy Commissioner's office from far off places just to know the status of files, Mr. Ponnuraj said.
“Although this facility has been created, many people continue to visit our office to enquire about their files. We inform them about the new facility and ask them to utilise it,” said a staff member.
Plan
Mr. Ponnuraj has another ambitious plan of taking e-governance to 10 gram panchayats in the district with in a fortnight. With that. people living in those gram panchayat limits will be able to file on-line applications for land conversion at respective panchayat offices. However, all relevant documents should be submitted while filing the application, he said.
The people have to first approach respective taluk offices and later his office for land conversion, he said and added that the entire process might involve five to six visits. After submitting an online application at a gram panchayat office, there is no need for the applicant to visit the taluk office or the Deputy Commissioner's office. “Arrangements will also be made to enable the people pay fixed fee for land conversion at local banks,” he said.
Additional Deputy Commissioner S.A. Prabhakar Sharma said that applicants would be given a computer generated challan. After remitting the prescribed fee at designated bank branches, acknowledgment would have to be submitted at respective panchayat offices. The panchayats would scan them and send it to the Deputy Commissioner's office. The land conversion grant certificates would be issued at the respective panchayat offices, he said.
The 10 gram panchayat are Haleyangady, Kinnigoli, Bajpe, Kandavara and Kotekar in Mangalore Taluk, and Kurnadu, Vitla, Kavalamudur, Mani and Kukkipady in Bantwal taluk.
The networking would later be extended to other gram panchayats. At present, the service would be restricted to land conversion applications, Mr. Ponnuraj said.
