CHANDIGARH, JAN 10 – Haryana has moved to a high-pressure schedule to fix its land revenue system, ordering all tehsils to open on Saturdays this January to clear nearly 2 lakh pending mutation requests.
Financial Commissioner Revenue Sumita Misra has directed Deputy Commissioners to use the ‘Jalsa-E-Aam’ campaign to process the state’s current load of 189,635 mutation applications. A three-tier monitoring system is now in place to track progress at the district, divisional, and state levels every month.
“The state is currently processing applications across 143 tehsils,” Misra stated. “Deputy commissioners have been instructed to prioritise over 50,000 cases pending for more than 10 days.”
The reform package includes the enforcement of Section 111A of the Punjab Land Revenue Act to speed up land partitions. In villages with high volumes of disputes, the government will empanel retired revenue officers to lead consensus-based settlements.
Digital progress was also a key focus of the announcement. Haryana has now digitized over 60 lakh land records. Since shifting to a paperless registration mode, the state has processed 117,931 deeds, achieving a 76% approval rate.
“Our goal is a seamless, paperless system,” Misra added. “Clearing this backlog is the final hurdle before we can fully implement auto-mutation across the state.”
