Andhra Pradesh moving towards transparent, decentralised registration services

Registration services will be extended to 2,000 village and ward secretariats across Andhra Pradesh by October 2 to enable people complete their transactions in a hassle-free and transparent manner.

Ultimately, the services will be made available in all 15,000 village and ward secretariats in the state over the next few months, according to Special Chief Secretary (Revenue) Rajat Bhargava.

We recently launched the registration services on a pilot basis in 51 secretariats. This has been a success and now we will expand the services to 2,000 secretariats. The secretariats’ staff has been imparted required training for this, Rajat told PTI. He said this was a major step in not only decentralising the registration services but also in eliminating middlemen and checking corruption.

By end of October, all 15,000 staffers required to man the registration services would be trained. At the end of the training, we will conduct an examination for the staff. We are introducing an online cell for addressing staff queries on the registration issues. A similar online facility will be made available soon for the general public as well, the Special Chief Secretary said.