Palamu Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Kumar Agrahari and team of officials including DDC Bindu Madhav Pd Singh, additional collector revenue P K Prasad, assistant director social security Satrunjay Kumar, Nazareth deputy collector Shailesh Kumar, district social welfare officer Aftab Alam and others travelled by a passenger train to Banaras to reach Mohammadganj railway station for their onward road from there for Bhajaniya where an impressive ‘Sarkar Aapke Dwar’ programme was held.

Chief Secretary D K Tiwari has asked all DCs to hold this programme every Wednesday while DDC to do it every Saturday.

The passenger train was a Mainline electrical multiple unit and it was a two-hour train journey where sitting in a passenger compartment Agrahari and his team interacted with other co passengers.

Nazareth deputy collector Shailesh Kumar bought the ticket from Daltonganj to Mohammadganj railway station for a price of Rs. 20 per head for a contingent of 35 people including DC, DDC, Addl Collector, other officials, security personnel and host of journalists.

The Pioneer travelled in this contingent and the train journey covered 62 Kms from Daltonganj to Mohammadganj railway station. At Mohammadganj railway station the contingent moved in four wheelers to reach Bhajaniya panchayat bhavan for ‘Sarkar Aapke Dwar’.

The details of three Intermediate science college girls, below the age of 18, were noted down as DC asked district social welfare officer Aftab Alam to get the girls covered under Mukhya Mantri Sukanya Yojna. Alam did as he was told.

Back in the programme, issues of mutation were raised. And the stock in trade complaints was that mutation is not done and illegal gratification is demanded.

DC called in CO of Mohammadganj P K Das to know about the status of the mutation cases and Das just fumbled for words. It was Addl Collector P K Prasad who said there 55 mutation cases pending here in Mohammadganj circle.

 DC scolded a revenue official when he tried to delay the mutation case in the name of CNT Act.

The next big issue that cropped up here was related to PDS shops, ration distribution and withholding of ration cards by the PDS dealers.

DDC Singh got one such captive ration card in possession of a PDS dealer G Gupta to its real owner Batia Devi.

DC raided a PDS shop too at Sheelapar some distance away from the venue of the programme where distribution of ration was withheld for ten days. It got started on arrival of the DC there.

A man, whose son is in BSF, felt relieved when he got his son’s caste certificate in the format acceptable in BSF. An aged man was sanctioned a house under Ambedkar Awas Yojna.

Satrunjay Kumar and Aftab Alam both senior officials helped the gathering to get their complaints addressed at this programme.