Land survey work slow in Katihar district

KATIHAR: The special land survey in the district is slow as hardly 30% of the work has been completed at five out of the seven camps set up for the purpose. The survey work in only Falka-1 (Pothia) and Falka-3 (Hathwara) camp offices has been over 50%, that is 54.03% and 54.34% respectively.
The other five camps are Korha-1 (Baharkhaal), Korha-2 (Rampur), Korha-3 (Nakkipur), Falka-2 (Bareta) and Kurshela-1 (Kurshela).
The Korha-1 has completed 26.11% of the survey while Korha-2 has done 26.92%, Korha-3 28.99%, Falka-2 31.33% and Kurshela-1 only 31.40%, the sources said.
Officials said work on data entry under Performa 2, 3(1) and 5 has been going on. The Performa (2) deals with the self-declaration made by the farmers while 3(1) tells about family lineage (vanshavali) and Performa (5) speaks about terij, which means copying the land details (khatiyan) from the government record office.
An assistant settlement officer said they were acing difficulty in procuring relevant documents from the farmers. “So, work under Performa 2 and 3(1) has been affected. Work under Performa (5) has achieved 88% results as amins who carry khatiyan from the land record office do the job on their own,” he said.
Katihar ADM Vijay Kumar, said after the village land boundary verification work, which is called ‘kistawar’, ground truthing work (khanapuri) will commence. That will be done by an agency who had earlier conducted an aerial survey work of the land in the state, he said.