India Right To Information

Ahmedabad Over 3,500 original land records of as many plots of land have gone "missing" from government custody in Sanand, which has turned into a real estate hotspot with the Tatas setting up their Nano project there. Revenue officials have admitted that no effort has been made yet to find and restore these records or to fix responsibility. Sanand talati (officer in charge of land records) Hari Vaghela revealed this in his reply to an RTI application by Newsline. The reply says the Records of Rights of land from No. 1 to 3,036 and from No. 5,046 to 5,564 have simply gone "missing". The records contain the change of rights over different plots in
Sanand. Vaghela said that till date, no effort has been made by any officer to restore
these records, adding that they were sent to the mamlatdar's office, but were never returned.

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