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The Bihar Revenue Service Association (BiRSA) connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) expressed beardown objection and superior interest implicit definite remarks made by Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha during a caller departmental property league successful Patna.
Mr. Sinha, who besides holds the portfolio of Revenue and Land Reforms, successful a property league connected Monday (March 9, 2026) implied that immoderate bureau bearers associated with the federation were allegedly acting arsenic “agents of onshore mafias” and that they could look suspension, dismissal from service, oregon different punitive action.
Rejecting the allegations arsenic “baseless and unsubstantiated”, the federation said the remarks are damaging to the dignity of the full Revenue Service cadre. “It is profoundly unfortunate that officers who are entrusted with important responsibilities specified arsenic removal of onshore encroachments, enactment against amerciable concern of land, solution of onshore disputes, gross collection, survey operations, and catastrophe absorption are being collectively subjected to insinuations questioning their integrity and commitment, “ General Secretary of the Federation Jitendra Pandey said successful a property statement.
In his remarks connected Monday (March 9, 2026), Mr. Sinha had besides warned the protesting Circle Officers (COs) asking them to instrumentality to enactment oregon look action. He had added that if COs connected onslaught volition not instrumentality to enactment by Tuesday (March 10, 2026) nighttime past the section volition springiness their complaint to artifact improvement officers (BDOs) and volition besides find retired their replacement.
Mr. Pandey besides said that the BiRSA believes that whenever officers of the Revenue Service rise their morganatic administrative and organization concerns successful a antiauthoritarian and peaceful manner, attempts are made to weaken those concerns by creating an ambiance of allegations and suspicion.
“Such statements not lone divert attraction from the existent issues but besides adversely impact the morale of the Revenue Administration and undermine organization credibility,” helium added.
Another General Secretary of the Federation, Rajni Kanti, clarified that if determination is immoderate factual and credible grounds of collusion betwixt immoderate serviceman and onshore mafias, specified cases should beryllium investigated done a just and lawful process, and strict enactment should beryllium taken successful accordance with the law.
He expressed that the federation would afloat enactment specified action, however, placing the full cadre and its typical assemblage nether suspicion without grounds is neither just nor justified.
BiRSA President, Anand Kumar, said that it was necessary to reiterate that the halfway contented successful the contiguous quality relates to the posting connected the station of Deputy Collector Land Reforms (DCLR) and the work operation governing the Revenue Service.
“Under the Bihar Revenue Service Rules, 2010, a full of 101 posts of Deputy Collector Land Reforms (DCLR), on with 33 equivalent posts, were primitively notified for officers belonging to the Revenue Service cadre. However, these posts person been allotted to officers from different services successful deviation from the prescribed work rules. Such actions are contrary to the established work operation and magnitude to an encroachment upon the morganatic rights of the Revenue Service cadre,” Mr. Anand said.
He further said: “After being promoted but not being fixed posting connected the said posts, the substance was brought earlier the Patna High Court through. After proceeding the case, the Court, successful its bid dated 19 June 2025, intelligibly directed that officers of the Revenue Service who had already been promoted to the station of DCLR should beryllium posted accordingly, portion officers belonging to different cadres should beryllium accommodated against recently created posts.”
“It is simply a substance of superior interest that alternatively of ensuring due compliance with the judicial directions, changes were introduced successful the applicable rules successful a mode that efficaciously sought to circumvent the tone and intent of the Court’s order. In this context, a contempt petition is presently nether information earlier the Court,” Mr. Kumar added.
He pointed retired that the Revenue Service officers are the precise officers who face onshore mafias, amerciable encroachments, and analyzable onshore disputes astatine the crushed level. “Associating specified officers with onshore mafias without substantiated grounds is not lone illogical but whitethorn besides weaken the ongoing efforts against specified unlawful activities.”
Earlier, Association officers had warned of boycotting the enactment implicit the Minister’s conduct.
