Chandigarh, July 3: The Revenue Patwar Union Punjab has announced a symbolic protest outside the Director Land Records Office in Jalandhar on July 10, following two years of unresolved discussions with the state administration. The union leadership stated that multiple high-level meetings with various ministers and top revenue officials yielded only unfulfilled promises. The upcoming demonstration marks the beginning of a systematic struggle against the current administrative framework to secure essential workforce changes.
The representative body is seeking immediate intervention from the state leadership to fix severe operational shortages in rural areas. While addressing a press conference alongside the state committee, Revenue Patwar Union State President Balraj Singh Aujla declared, “Just as Chief Minister Mann has made water available to the tails, similarly the Chief Minister should make Patwaris available to every village.” The state leader maintained that establishing a concrete guarantee of an official for every village would significantly reduce public inconvenience and streamline governance.
The union has put forward several critical administrative and financial demands that have remained pending for an extended period. Union leaders affirmed that the state needs to restore 1,056 sanctioned posts that were reduced in 2023, clear pending promotions to the rank of Kanungo, and cancel the central pay scale applied to personnel recruited after July 2020. Furthermore, the organization noted that basic amenities are severely lacking, explicitly pointing out the absence of functional bathrooms in Patwar Bhawans despite an increasing number of women joining the department, alongside a general shortage of work laptops.
The association emphasized the multi-dimensional role its members play in maintaining the state’s social and administrative stability. Beyond their standard land record duties, field officials provide critical assistance in disaster management, anti-drug operations, and specific state development initiatives. The leadership asserted that the Chief Minister should prioritize resolving these workplace issues through structured dialogue before the scheduled protest further alters the operational environment.
