After 142 years, Janjgir got a new tehsil building
Raipur, 5 May 2025
Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Dev Sai, who reached Janjgir on a surprise visit with the spirit of ‘Samadhan Se Samadhan’ under Sushasan Tihaar, gave a historic gift to the people of the district after 142 years. He inaugurated the newly constructed tehsil office building. The old tehsil building built in 1883 during the British rule has now become history, and in its place a new building equipped with state-of-the-art facilities has been dedicated to the public at a cost of Rs 4 crore 21 lakh. The Chief Minister said that the priority of the government is to ensure simple, easy and smooth access to services to the common people, and this new tehsil office is an important initiative in that direction. He said that with this building, all the revenue related services will be available to the citizens of 54 villages and 24 Patwari Halkas of the area in one complex.
All the facilities required for efficient functioning of administrative and judicial work have been developed in the new tehsil building. Services like caste, residence, income certificate will be provided through the Public Service Centre, while the incoming-outgoing branch will ensure the dispatch and voice of documents as per rules. Nazir branch has been established for maintenance of judicial documents, election branch for election related works, Kanungo branch for land and revenue records and Maljamadar room for revenue collection and financial management. Also, well-equipped rooms have been made in the office building for administrative and judicial work of Sub-Divisional Officer Revenue and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Tehsildar, Additional Tehsildar and Naib Tehsildar.
On this occasion, Finance Minister Mr. O.P. Choudhary, MP Mrs. Kamlesh Jangde, former Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Mr. Narayan Chandel, MLA Mr. Vyas Kashyap, Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation Chairman Mr. Saurabh Singh, Chief Secretary Mr. Amitabh Jain, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Mr. Subodh Kumar Singh, Secretary to the Chief Minister Mr. P. Dayanand, senior officers of the district administration, local public representatives and a large number of citizens were present.
