Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, May 17: As per the instructions issued by the Administrative Secretary of the Rural Development and Panchayat Department, District Development and Panchayat Officer, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, *Baljinder Singh Grewal* held a meeting with the Panchayat Secretaries of Block Majri and Block Mohali at the meeting hall of the District Administrative Complex today to review the progress of departmental schemes/development works.
Giving information about the meeting, District Development and Panchayat Officer, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar said that all the Panchayat Secretaries were instructed to ensure the maintenance of Shamlat lands. The complete data of Shamlat lands should be available with the Panchayat Secretary. Shamlat lands should be pinned on Googlemap and the boundaries of Shamlat lands should be marked. Shamlat lands should be marked on logs so that the maintenance of Shamlat lands can be done easily and accurate and complete data can be prepared.
Apart from this, while instructing to implement the pending possession warrants as soon as possible, the Panchayat Secretaries were given 10 days to implement the possession warrants that can be taken. They were told that if there is any problem in implementing any possession warrant, the Panchayat Secretary should immediately bring this matter to the notice of his senior officer so that the possession warrants can be implemented in a time-bound manner.
The DDPO decided to bid for the new area identified by the Shamlat Cell as per Proforma 1 and 2. If anyone has illegally occupied the newly identified area, then a case under Section 7 of the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961, was asked to be filed within 10 days.
It was also instructed in the meeting that if any area has been wrongly recorded in Proforma 1 and 2, then this area should be corrected from the Shamlat Cell with complete documentary evidence.
It was asked to complete the bidding of Shamlat lands as per the schedule for the year 2025-26 and to do it with an increase of 20 percent. After the bidding, the bidding amount was instructed to be deposited in the Gram Panchayat account immediately.
All the Panchayat Secretaries were instructed to get the dewatering and desilting of ponds done as soon as possible. It was also instructed that if the records requested under the RDO scheme are not submitted by any Panchayat Secretary by May 18, then a letter will be written to the head office for action against them.