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Registration Department effects staff redeployment

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Registration Department, which set an example by coming up with a Citizens’ Charter just two months ago, has gone in for an across-the-board redeployment of staff as part of efforts to implement the charter promises.

The redeployment has come three decades after the staff pattern in the department was put in place and would make available sufficient number of hands in registrar’s offices across the State.

The unevenness in staff deployment in the department was such that while the sub-registrar’s office in Cherthala in Alappuzha district, where 3,727 documents are registered on an average every year, has 9 clerks, the sub-registrar’s office at Perumbavoor, where as many as 10,866 documents are registered every year, has only 6 clerks.

Similarly, while the sub-registrar’s office at Kollam with a registration load of 4,601 documents a year has 10 clerks, the sub-registrar’s office at Manjeri in Malappuram district with 9,115 document registrations a year has only 4 clerks.

The redeployment has been effected keeping in view the work load at different registrar’s offices all over the State.

The question of staff redeployment in the department has been hanging fire for years now.

In his order giving effect to the staff redeployment, Registration Inspector General A.K. Ramakrishnan has said that the redeployment has been effected on the basis of workload in various registrar’s offices during the last two years and is being done protecting the promotion avenues of the employees.

The redeployment had become essential given the promise in the Citizens’ Charter to provide time-bound services to the general public which was not possible given the uneven staff pattern in the department, he has pointed out.

The staff redeployment, which would see 109 employees moving out of the districts where they work now, has to do with the posts of sub-registrars, junior superintendents, head clerks, upper division clerks, lower division clerks and last grade staff.

The redeployment has been given effect from September 15 beginning with sub-registrars and clerical and last grade staff.

The process of redeployment is scheduled to be completed on September 30. Once the redeployment is completed, the present practice of work adjustments in the department would stand abolished.

Welcoming the staff redeployment, Registration Department Officers’ Association general secretary B. Mohandas has said that the measure will help translate the promise in the Citizens’ Charter for timely service delivery to the general public into a reality.

He has, however, sought restoration of the 326 posts that had been scrapped over the last few years to improve the functioning of the department.

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