MCC to conduct e-Khata abhiyan every Friday

Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) announced an e-Khata abhiyan every Friday between 3pm and 6pm to ensure that the public do not face any challenges in obtaining the services. This comes amid public outrage over the delay in issuing the e-Khatas due to various technical glitches, especially server and login-related issues, from the first week of June.

There are around 1.7 lakh properties in the MCC limits, and till June 3, around 45,000 e-Khatas were issued.

"We have set a target of issuing at least 1 lakh e-Khatas by the end of this financial year," explained Shaikh Tanveer Asif, MCC commissioner. He informed that the city corporation is working towards ensuring that citizens get e-Khatas hassle-free. "Complaints against delay in the delivery of services are taken seriously," he said.

Meanwhile, the public and real estate stakeholders are upset with the delay in the issuing of e-Khatas, citing technical issues by the civic agencies in and around Mysuru for the last four weeks. They point out that the delay in issuing the e-Khatas on time has brought the real estate sector to a standstill.

According to the public, the real challenge is poor preparedness. "The statements by the officials at Bengaluru are not reaching the officials working at the revenue offices. They are clueless about the modifications in the rules. If we pressurise them to issue the e-Khata in a time-bound manner, they cite server issues as the reason for the delay," said Sundar Rajan, a resident from Basaveshwara Road.

"The situation is even more problematic in other urban bodies around the city. The state govt must train the employees about the rules. Govt must ensure that all the changes in the rule reach the officials on the ground," he said.

Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI) Mysuru chapter president Shrihari D, and BS Prashanth, president of Federation of Organisations and Associations of Mysuru (FOAM), said getting an e-Khata for a property has become a herculean task, and they raised the issue with the agencies concerned. "Those who want to sell their properties urgently are facing a lot of challenges in getting the e-Khata. The real estate sector virtually became standstill due to the delay in the issuing of the e-Khatas," said Prashanth.