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CHANDIGARH, March 12: Misuse Wing of the Estate Office has been virtually left incapacitated due to official apathy to staff it properly for the past three years.
According to the sources, the wing has been functioning with a skeleton staff since June 1996, when 75 per cent of its staff members, including 11 inspectors, a superintendent and a assistant were sent on deputation to the Municipal Corporation. quot;Four inspectors were however repatriated last year, but they are just not enough along with the office strength of three an assistant, a clerk and a typist being shared by the different departments in the Estate Office at present,quot; sources say.
quot;We are unable to pursue any more cases though we are aware of clear violations by many residents in the city. The process is lengthy and tedious and then, half of the time we have to be present in the court,quot; the employees said. They said their requests to the higher authorities in the Estate Office have yielded no results.
Refusing to be quoted, a Estate Office official admitted to such a problem, but said, quot;the matter is being sorted out. Actually, the inspectors who were repatriated to the wing by the MC had to be put on to some other important job in the Estate office.quot;
