Revenue dept mulls special cell for processing land conversion applications at Fort Kochi Revenue Divisional Office

MLAs demand relocation of RD office to District Collectorate

A suggestion to set up a special cell under a senior revenue official dedicated to processing applications for land conversion under the Fort Kochi Revenue Divisional Office is learnt to be under consideration of the Revenue Department. The development assumes significance in the wake of the transfer of more than 25 personnel from the Fort Kochi office in the second week of August following allegations of delay in processing applications and some staff members demanding money for considering land conversion applications. District Collector Jaffar Malik had constituted a squad of Revenue Department officials to scrutinise the more than 3,000 files relating to land conversion applications at the RD office. Sources said that the report had been submitted to the District Collector. The administration has also finalised plans to reshuffle the staff members in more than 160 Revenue Department offices in the district following the allegations against the Fort Kochi office.