Bureaucratic hiatus: After the fire gutted all the documents, farmers were unable to transfer the title deed of their land
HAVERI: In a first in the state, Haveri district administration has decided to recreate and rebuild all important documents that were gutted when a few angry farmers protesting against the irregular supply of water, set the revenue record office in Savanur on fire on April 29, 2000.
Due to the fire, more than 10,000 farmers of 33 villages under Savanur’s Kasaba hobli lost their land records and that in turn deprived them of loans and other government benefits. Following Haveri deputy commissioner’s order to recreate the destroyed documents by referring to the supporting documents preserved in the department at the earliest, the revenue authorities have commenced the work already.