MARGAO
The manpower crunch had crippled the services at the Sub-Registrar office during the Parsekar regime since last year after the Department of Planning and Statistics issued an order withdrawing staff deputed at the Salcete Sub-Registrar office.
Incidentally, both then Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and his deputy Francis D’Souza, who were holding charge of the planning and statistics and law portfolios respectively could not end the stalemate for reasons best known to them, leaving all services at the Sub-Registrar’s office paralysed.
Officials in the know pointed out that there’s indeed a ray of hope to break the impasse with the two portfolios of Planning & Statistics and Law are now with Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. “All that the Chief Minister has to do is to withdraw the earlier order issued by the Planning & Statistics director so that the staff withdrawn from the Salcete Sub-Registrar’s office returns back at one stroke,” remarked an official.
Incidentally, Salcete Sub-Registrar Chandrakant Pissurlekar drew the attention of the Town and Country Planning Department Minister Vijai Sardesai during his weekly Janata Darbar held at the district Collectorate, South, on Thursday.
Taking cognizance of the situation, Sardesai later told the media that he would take up the issue with the Chief Minister on a priority basis. “I am aware that everything is stuck at the Sub-Registrar’s office at Margao for want of manpower. I will take up with the Chief Minister to put things in order at the Sub-Registrar’s office,” he said.
During the Janata Darbar, a delegation from Dramapur-Sirlim led by panch member Domnick Noronha called on the TCP minister and underlined the need to put the Salcete Sub-Registrar office in order. He said that the Dramapur-Sirlim Panchayat had only recently adopted a resolution demanding that the government streamline the services at the Sub-Registrar office at the earliest.
The birth and death section in the Salcete Sub-Registrar office is presently manned by a skeletal staff comprising of three employees, of which is required to attend court proceedings on a daily basis.
Inquiries have revealed that the remaining employees cannot cope with the huge work as a result of which applications for birth and death documents have been pending in the office for more than 2-3 months now.
