Collector comes hard on negligent Tahsildar

Siddipet: In a knee-jerk reaction, the Siddipet Collector P Venkatrami Reddy came hard on Akkannapet mandal Tahsildar Ramachandram for neglecting his duties with regard to the rectification of land records and the distribution to farmers.

The Collector also declared an departmental enquiry and instructed the Tahsildar to report at the collectorate. He said that stringent action would be initiated against the Tahsildar once the enquiry is completed. A review meeting with revenue divisional officers of Siddipet, Gajwel and Husnabd and Tahsildars of all the mandals was conducted to take stock of the land records rectification and pattadar passbooks at the collectorate here on Thursday.

He has also discussed on the plan to distribute the cheques of Rythu Bandu and Pattadar passbooks to 100 per cent of farmers soon. Joint Collector, M Padmakar, DRO, Chandrashekar and other officials were present.