Server crash in Registration department, services suspended since eight days, daily loss Rs 20 crore

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The server failure of the registration department continues, causing difficulties to the public and a revenue loss of Rs 20 crore per day. It has been eight days since deed registration and related services have been interrupted.

The National Informatics Centre (NIC), a central government organization, is responsible for setting up and maintaining the server. The delay in increasing server capacity with workload caused this issue.

About 4,000 deeds are registered daily through 315 Sub-Registrar offices. The earning per day is Rs 18-20 crore. The income of 8,000 licensees and 25,000 office workers in this sector were also affected.

Several services including land registration, marriage registration, deed copies, liability certificates have been suspended for eight days.

There had been server issues since two months and it stopped working eight days ago. Although the issue was resolved on Friday, the server again crashed on Monday. The NIC is given a service charge of Rs 40 lakh per year, but the server issue still continues. Minister V N Vasavan said that he had instructed to solve the issues immediately and hopes to resume the services by Monday.