PANAJI
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Revenue Minister Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate both stepped up to assure the House that mamlatdars and joint mamlatdars are functioning efficiently to conduct the quasi-judicial mundkar law processes to dispose of cases speedily and there was no need for changes in the law.
Sawant and Monserrate were responding to the discussion on a private member's resolution moved by Mandrem MLA Jit Arolkar who wanted the government to come up with a provision in the law by which Talathis enumerate persons with mundkarial rights like a survey and institute a quick process where mamlatadars issue declarations in their favour.
He said, that in many instances people hesitate to file claims out of fear of the backlash from landlords but the chief minister said filing cases before mamlatdars at least must be done by the parties involved and the government can only ensure that the process thereafter is speedy.
"Cases can and are being finalised by mamlatdars courts even in just three hearings," Sawant said.
Earlier, Monserrate while responding to the discussion said only 2,000-odd cases are pending in mamlatdars courts across the state even as hundreds of cases were disposed of in the last one year including with courts sitting on Saturdays and Sundays.
The pendency is not declining because fresh cases are being instituted with no sunset clause in the law, he said adding that over a thousand cases were added in the last one year itself.
Arolkar later withdrew the resolution saying people will come forward to file cases in mamlatdars courts if they come to know that disposal happens even in three hearings as the chief minister claims.
