Village offices in Kerala will be made people-friendly: Rajan

Revenue Minister says he will follow a bottom-up development approach

Transforming village offices, the common man’s connecting point to the Revenue Department, is at the top of the priority list of Kerala’s new Revenue Minister K. Rajan. Listing his plans for the next five years during an interview with The Hindu, Mr. Rajan said, “Every person above the age of 18 will have to visit a village office at least once in his life. But an array of issues await him/her at the village offices which still function with primitive facilities. Documents go missing, issue of certificates gets delayed and there are allegations of corruption too.” “Strengthening of the Revenue Department should start from the village offices. We need a bottom-up development approach. It includes creating a people-friendly system with e-office, front office and other basic changes. This is necessary to connect the Revenue Department with the people,” said the Minister, who has been in the forefront of many people’s struggles in the past.