Introduction
The article TSPSC VRO Roles and Responsibilities will provide the information about VRO duties in Telangana state revenue department. The important duty of the Village Revenue Officer (VRO) will be the maintenance of village records, collection of taxes, land revenue, preliminary reports on the issue of certificates, protection of Government properties, monuments and assisting the police by reporting the offenses.
Duties
Village Revenue Officers (VRO’s) are authorized persons in a village for collecting revenue taxes such as house taxes, farm taxes from the farmers etc. Following are the roles and responsibilities of a VRO in Revenue Department:
- VRO maintains revenue records and revenue accounts of a village promptly and correctly
- Collection of Land Revenue, Cessee, Taxes and other sums pertaining to Revenue department.
- Azmoish of crops (100%) inclusive of inspection of survey stones.
- Issue of Certificates: The Village Revenue Officers shall issue the following certificates in their respective Villages duly following the procedure:
- Nativity certificate and Solvency certificate
- Residence Certificate
- Pahani / Adangal extracts
- Provide intimation regarding fire accidents, floods cyclone and other accidents and calamities to the higher officials whenever and wherever they occur and provide assistance to the Revenue Officials in assessing loss sustained because of natural calamities and in providing relief.
- Report encroachments damage or misuse of Government lands and damage to Government property promptly to the Mandal Revenue Officer/Tahsildar and take effective follow-up action.
- Provide Guidance to the respective authorities while issuing the proceedings under the provisions of Revenue Recovery Act by obtaining property details.
- Guide the authorities in serving of legal notices and summons.
- Cause beat of tom-tom and adopt other methods for informing people about events.
- Inform the Railway Station Master of any mishap or unusual occurrence of floods that might need urgent action to prevent mishap.
- Preparation of pay bills of Village Servants.
- Maintenance of Village Chavadies.
- Protection of Government lands, Government tanks, trees and other Government properties and take effective steps to safeguard the interest of Government.
- Inform promptly to the higher officials in respect of treasure trove and unclaimed property and escheat.
- Assist in loan recoveries.
- Conduct Panchanama in recovery of un-claimed property.
- Keep Government attached property in safe custody.
- Attend the meetings convened by Gram Panchayat in their jurisdiction and on request to furnish information relating to sanction of pensions, number of ration cards in circulation, house site pattas distributed and on other matters relating to Revenue Administration.
- A Village Revenue Officer when called upon to do so, produce the account, registers and other records, maintained by him or which are in his custody for inspection of any revenue official or any other officer authorized by the Collector, RDO or Tahsildar. Except when called upon to produce his accounts and other records as mentioned above, the Village Revenue Officer shall keep the accounts, registers and records in his personal custody.
- Inform the Mandal Revenue Officer/Tahsildar of any intended demolition of ancient buildings and any inscriptions on any such ancient monuments which would have archaeological, cultural heritage importance.
- Preserve and safeguard Government lands and properties form encroachments, damage or misuse include the lands available to the public, such as, roads, streets and open spaces in and near their villages.
- Assist in preparation, updation of electoral rolls and perform other election duties as the government may direct.
- In the event of transfer / suspension / removal / dismissal / retirement or proceeding on leave other than casual leave, he shall hand over all the accounts, registers, records and the like to the person duly appointed by the competent authority or authorized to take charge by the Tahsildar.
- Give prompt information to the police Department regarding murders, suicides, unnatural deaths and other important developments which may threaten peace in the village.
- Inform the police of strangers of suspicious appearance who have entered and taken refuge in the village.
- Prevent the commission of any offence or public nuisance.
- Take measures to bring the offenders to justice.
- Search for stolen property and bring to the Police Station.
- Preserve in-tact the scene of offence.
- Take charge of unclaimed property and send to the Policy Station.
- Assist the concerned government department in the implementation of important Government programmes such as Indiramma Prabha, Indira Kranthi Pathakam, and National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme etc.
- Furnish data on income levels of persons in the village prepared on the basis of government guidelines issued in that regard from time to time.
- Do necessary documentation and assist in the implementation of Weaker Section Housing Programme.
- Report on the atrocities against women and children to the authorities concerned and take action within 24 hours.
- Report cases of atrocities against Schedule Castes & Schedule Tribes to the authorities concerned & provide assistance to them.
- Guidence in maintenance of agriculture statistics.
- Guidence in giving information to the concerned officials about any black market sales of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides.
- Guidence in maintenance of house hold data of weavers both within and outside Co-operation fold and their economic status.
- Issue Dependency Certificate for handloom weavers if any desired.
- Function as Marriage Officer for the cluster of village under the Act for the compulsory registration of marriages in the State.
- Strive for eradication of un-touch ability of providing access to Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes in Temples, and removal of discrimination in all forms against the schedule caste population.
- Report any outbreak of communicable disease especially Malaria, Japanese Encephalitis and Gastroenteritis to the nearest Primary Health Centre immediately.
- Attend meetings of Village Tribal Development agencies and assist them in preparation of micro plans and in implementing them.
- Guide the Education department in conducting the literacy classes.
- Guidence in reconciliation of estimates of crop coverage with Azmoish figure for reconciling the crop area for crop insurance scheme.
- Guide the department of Agriculture in implementing its programmes and disseminating extension information.
Miscellaneous
The VRO may also do such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Government, Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Collector, Revenue Divisional Officer, Mandal Revenue Officers / Tahsildar or any authorized in this behalf.