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Acting connected complaints of bribery, Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule conducted a astonishment inspection astatine a sub-registrar’s bureau successful Nagpur connected Monday (October 6, 2025) and seized currency from the premises.
Although the registration process has been afloat digitised, citizens had complained that definite officials demanded amerciable payments. During the inspection, Mr. Bawankule recovered currency stashed successful a unit member’s desk.
“We are committed to rooting retired corruption and ensuring transparency successful authorities operations. I impulse citizens to travel guardant and study immoderate specified misconduct without hesitation,” Mr. Bawankule said.
The Minister said the State authorities had zero tolerance towards corruption and assured strict action.
The instrumentality enforcement authorities person begun an probe into the complaints of corruption.
The authorities employee, from whose table the wealth was recovered, denied allegations of bribery and insisted that the amount, astir ₹5,000, belonged to him.
The inspection came amid the State government’s 150-day programme aimed astatine transforming administrative systems.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had announced that each authorities services would beryllium integrated into a azygous integer platform.
“My absorption is much connected e-governance. In my past 10 years, we brought galore services online, but present I privation end-to-end integer governance. If anyone needs thing from the government, they shouldn’t person to sojourn an office,” helium said, adding that services would soon beryllium accessible via WhatsApp, supported by a outgo gateway done a concern with Meta.
