Dharwad Deed writers demand parallel paper and digital registration systems

Hubballi: Dharwad District Registration and Stamps Department (Dasta) Deed Writers Trust has demanded that the state govt continue the paper-based registration system, claiming that the shift to paperless digital registration through the Cauvery software has caused severe inconvenience to the public and document writers.Speaking to reporters here Saturday, trust president Shantaraj Pol said registrations had been done through paper-based processes for several years. He alleged that paperless registration through the Cauvery software was facilitating the land mafia. "With the paperless registration process, it is not known whose property it is, who bought it or who sold it," he said.Pol said the state govt had implemented paperless digital registration for the first time in Chamarajanagar and presented it as successful, but claimed there were many problems. He said other states were following a model where both paperless and paper-based registration systems were implemented, and the same could be adopted in the state to benefit all.He said if only paperless digital registration was implemented, hundreds of document writers would become unemployed, and demanded immediate withdrawal of the decision. He said the trust had no objection to paperless registration if implemented alongside the existing system, warning that a struggle would be inevitable otherwise.Vindogowda Patil, Ramachandra Salunke, Rukaminibai Chalawadi and others were present.