category Regional, chandigarh, , tags Regional, chandigarh, , DW BUREAU Chandigarh Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said the government has introduced the system of making e-Fard with digital signatures to provide relief to the people. Now people do not have to make frequent visit to patwari s offices to get the Fard of their Jamabandi. With this IT initiative, citizens can now get their Fard through the portal www.jamabandi.nic.in along with a digital signature, said Khattar while interacting with beneficiaries availing the e-Fard facility. The Chief Minister said the government is in the process of introducing a new law for the division of common land (Sanjhi Khewat) to settle family disputes. This step will bring great relief to the people and will also resolve the long-pending land disputes in courts. Expressing gratitude to the Chief Minister, beneficiaries who received the e-fard said the government has given great relief to the public by implementing the e-fard system. Previously to get the Fard they had to make frequent visits to the office of Patwari and even after that it used to take months to get the same, now after this IT initiative, this work is done in minutes and they are getting the same while sitting at home, said a beneficiary. Beneficiaries said that the way the Chief Minister is bringing such great e-governance reforms for the convenience of the people, they never thought that they would avail these facilities while sitting at home. The Chief Minister said that the state government had started the portal www.jamabandi.nic.in on December 25, 2022, and he is happy to share that in the last 4 months, about 10,000 people have downloaded e-fard with digital signatures. He said that the service charge for one Fard is only Rs.100 and for the first Khewat Rs.10 and for every subsequent Khewat the beneficiary has to pay an amount Rs. 5. He said that earlier the middlemen used to take commission for this work, but now the citizens have got freedom from such brokers and their work is being done while sitting at home. When we assumed power in the year 2014, at that time, our aim was to resolve the problems of the common people and make their lives simple. Digital systems were set up to achieve this target, said the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister said that computerization of land records management works has been done in all 143 tehsils sub-tehsils across the state using web-halris system. All the revenue record rooms have also been computerized. (editor dailyworld.in)