On Monday, Belagavi Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Roshan had a customer with a peculiar request – armed together with his dying certificates, a villager from Savgaon wished the IAS officer’s assist to show he was alive. For Ganapati Kakatkar, the go to to Roshan’s workplace was a determined bid to right an information entry operator’s mistake that had led to the 62-year-old villager shedding his Aadhaar card, entry to his checking account and several other authorities advantages.
In line with Ganapati, his ordeal started when he and his brothers utilized for a succession certificates to say their share of the six acres and 23 guntas of land left behind by their grandfather Masanu Shattu Kakatkar, who handed away on February 2, 1976.
Earlier than his dying, Masanu had divided his land amongst his three sons, retaining six acres and 23 guntas in his identify. This land was not transferred even after his demise. Over time, Masanu’s three sons handed away, leaving the property to his eight grandsons, together with Ganapati.
Two years in the past, the grandsons sought to switch the land to their names however confronted delays because the tahsildar’s workplace had failed to offer their grandfather’s dying certificates. They approached a neighborhood court docket in Belagavi, which then ordered that the certificates be issued.
It was on the income inspector’s workplace at Hindalga that a pc operator made a mistake – one which Ganapati would solely realise months later after his Aadhaar card was locked and his identify was faraway from the household ration card. Ganapati had been declared ‘formally lifeless’.
After discovering the error on August 3, 2023, Ganapati visited a number of native workplaces, together with the tahsildar’s, however to no avail. In June 2024, Ganapati realized how the error was launched. “My Aadhaar quantity had been wrongly entered as an alternative of my grandfather’s,” Ganapati informed The Indian Specific. “Regardless of telling them, the officers didn’t act,” he added.
On Monday, Ganapati, accompanied by his members of the family and an advocate, approached Roshan, who assured him the matter can be resolved and directed the assistant commissioner to take motion.
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