Is the patwari culture making a comeback in Punjab?
Patwari’s role important for hands-on knowledge in rural areas, says Board of Revenue senior member
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Updated Friday May 07 2021
On January 15, the Punjab government kicked up a storm, when it began to rehire land record and village officers, also known as
patwaris and
tehsildars, across the province.
Was the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) going back on its promise of ending the “patwari culture”? Didn’t it also vow to computerise all land records?
The “
patwari culture” has had a notorious reputation in Punjab. In the past, land record and revenue officers have been accused of corruption such as fudging tax collection to favor wealthy landlords over the poor.
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 8: Though with abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019 by the Central Government, large sections of people including West Pakistani refugees, Valmikis etc who were deprived of their genuine rights by previous successive Governments got their due, the Mahajans, Khatris and Sikhs of the Union Territory have started facing new inequality as they have been deprived certain rights of sale and purchase of agriculture land and taking up farming as a profession.
The inequality has been created with amendment in the State Land Law, sources told the Excelsior.
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Prof MG Chandrakanth did doctoral studies in Agricultural Economics from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and post doctoral studies in institutional economics of groundwater irrigation as a Ciriacy Wantrup fellow in the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized in resource and environmental economics and policy in general and groundwater resource economics and policy in particular and authored the book - Water Resource Economics published by Springer, 2015.
He also specializes in Agricultural Economics, Production Economics, valuation of externalities and role of sacred groves in natural resource conservation. He served as Professor and Head of the Dept of Agricultural Economics and as Dean, at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. LESS. MORE