Govt to resume camp courts in villages

Bhubaneswar: To help people avail various revenue services at their doorsteps, the state government has asked revenue officials to resume camp courts in villages from September 15.
The state revenue and disaster management secretary, in a letter to all district collectors, has instructed the tehsildars and additional tehsildars to visit the offices of revenue inspectors, panchayat offices and villages under their jurisdiction to conduct camp courts for two to three days a week. The instruction was issued in accordance with an order issued by chief minister Naveen Patnaik.
Though the camp courts were earlier used to be held at the tehsil offices or at the office of the revenue inspector, it was stopped due to Covid-19 pandemic, and will now resume and organized at the panchayat and village level across the state.
“The objective behind holding the camp courts is to dispose of pending revenue cases at the doorsteps of citizens and also reduce the distance between government and citizens,” said a revenue department official.