Overview
- Representing circle officers, BIRSA wrote to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar alleging public humiliation by Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha at district grievance forums and warned of possible boycotts.
- Vijay Kumar Sinha said the era of warnings is over and directed circle offices to file cases after verification against land grabs using forged documents, warning non‑compliant officials of departmental proceedings.
- Sinha rejected claims of abuse in public interactions and said he has not received any official communication from the association.
- Officials said recent public dialogues in Patna, Muzaffarpur and Purnea exposed alleged irregularities by field staff, fueling resentment within the department.
- The state launched a Partition and Mutation Portal enabling a single mutation application for all legal heirs to speed up land record updates, as the Chief Minister’s Office had not issued a response to the letter.