DUTIES OF VRO ( JOB CHART OF VRO)-General Administrative / Revenue Duties:

General Administrative / Revenue Duties:
i)  Maintenance of Village revenue record sand all Village revenue Accounts
promptly and accurately.

ii) Collection of Land Revenue, Cessee, Taxes and other sums pertaining to
Revenue department.

iii)  Azmoish of crops (100%) inclusive of inspection of survey stones.
iv) Issue of Certificates: The Village Revenue Officers shall issue the
following certificates in their respective Villages duly following the
procedure:

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1) Nativity certificate and Solvency certificate
2) Residence Certificate
3) Pahani / Adangal extracts

v)  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.
vi) Inform the Railway Station Master of any mishap or unusual occurrence of
floods that might need urgent action to prevent mishap.
vii) Preparation of pay bills of Village Servants.
viii) Maintenance of Village Chavadies.
ix) Protection of Government lands, Government tanks, trees and other
Government properties and take effective steps to safeguard the interest
of Government.
x) Inform promptly to the higher officials in respect of treasure trove and
unclaimed property and escheat.
xi) Intimate 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.
xii) 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.
xiii) 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. xiv)  Provide assistance to the concerned authorities while issuing the
proceedings under the provisions of Revenue Recovery Act by obtaining
property details.

xv) Assist the authorities in serving of legal notices and summons.
xvi) Cause beat of tom-tom and adopt other methods for infoming people
about events.
xvii) Assist in loan recoveries.
xviii) Conduct Panchanama in recovery of un-claimed property.
xix)  Keep Government attached property in safe custody.
xx) Assist in preparation, updation of electoral rolls and perform other election
duties as the government may direct.
xxi) 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.
xxii) Assist Andhra Pradesh Transaction Corporation in its operations at village
level and inform about the theft, pilferage of electricity to the concerned
authorities.
xxiii) Act as “Inspector” under Minimum Wages Act, 1948 as and when notified
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xxiv)  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.

xxv)  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.
II. Police functions:
i)  Give prompt information to the police Department regarding murders,
suicides, unnatural deaths and other important developments which may
threaten peace in the village.
ii) Inform the police of strangers of suspicious appearance who have entered
and taken refuge in the village.
iii)  Prevent the commission of any offence or public nuisance.
iv) Take measures to bring the offenders to justice.
v) Search for stolen property and bring to the Police Station.
vi) Preserve in-tact the scene of offence.
vii) Take charge of unclaimed property and send to the Policy Station.
III. Community Welfare and Development:
i)  Assist the concerned government department in the implementation  of
important Government programmes such as Indiramma Prabha, Indira
Kranthi Pathakam, National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme
etc.,
ii) 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.
iii)  Do necessary documentation and assist in the implementation of Weaker
Section Housing Programme.
iv) Report on the atrocities against women and children to the authorities
concerned and take action within 24 hours.
v) Report cases of atrocities against Schedule Castes & Schedule Tribes to
the authorities concerned & provide assistance to them.
vi)  Strive for eradication of un-touchability of providing access to Schedule
Castes and Schedule Tribes in Temples, and removal of discrimination in
all forms against the schedule caste population.
vii) Report any outbreak of communicable disease especially Malaria,
Japanese Encephalitis and Gastroenteritis to the nearest Primary Health
Centre immediately.
viii) Attend meetings of Village Tribal Development agencies and assist them
in preparation of micro plans and in implementing them.
ix)  Assist the Education department in conducting the literacy classes.
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x)  Assist in reconciliation of estimates of crop coverage with Azmoish figure
for reconciling the crop area for crop insurance scheme.
xi) Assist the department of Agriculture in implementing its programmes and
disseminating extension information.
xii) Assist in maintenance of agriculture statistics.
xiii)  Assist in giving information to the concerned officials about any black
market sales of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides.
xiv) Assist in maintenance of house hold data of weavers both within and
outside Co-operation fold and their economic status.
xv) Issue Dependency Certificate for handloom weavers if any desired.
xvi) Function as Marriage Officer for the cluster of village under the Act for the
compulsory registration of marriages in the State (Act No. 15 of 2002)
IV. Miscellaneous:
i) Perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the
Government, Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Collector,
Revenue Divisional Officer, Mandal Revenue Officers / Tahasildar or
any authorized in this behalf.
6.  The Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Hyderabad all the District
Collector in the State shall take necessary further action in the matter
accordingly.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA
PRADESH)