PPSC Naib-Tehsildar case studies

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The Naib Tehsildar recruitment test is the screening and selection examination that the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) conducts for appointment as Naib Tehsildar in the Punjab revenue administration. The post is a district-level revenue officer who assists the Tehsildar in land records, mutation work, revenue collection, and magisterial support at the tehsil level, so the test is designed to filter candidates who combine general academic competence with a working grasp of land revenue law and office practice. The PPSC Naib-Tehsildar case studies are 5 cases and about 4,873 words.

Mutation No. 4471 and the widow's 21 marla

At the revenue office of Tehsil Kot Addu, a widow, Nasreen Bibi, applies for correction of the record of rights. Her husband died fourteen months ago, leaving 8 kanal 8 marla (168 marla) of land recorded in his sole name in khasra 214/3.

978 words, about 5 min 2

The 30 × 50 plot and the 'gift' between cousins

A sale deed is presented for registration before the tehsil sub-registrar. The plot measures 30 ft by 50 ft in a municipal committee area.

940 words, about 5 min 3

Twenty-two cases of diarrhoea in Chak 96

In Chak 96, 22 of 180 residents, including 9 children under five, report watery diarrhoea within 72 hours. Nearly all of them draw water from a hand pump in a courtyard three metres from a soakage pit that was desilted last week.

960 words, about 5 min 4

The 0 KB file, the found USB and the 24-hour email

The tehsil office runs on one desktop computer: Windows 7, unlicensed, no antivirus, automatic updates switched off, shared by four clerks who all log in as 'tehsil' with the password 'tehsil123'. The mutation register, the daily diary and the monthly progress report live in a single folder on the desktop; there is no other copy.

1,028 words, about 5 min 5

Two letters about one boundary wall

Two letters reach the naib-tehsildar's office on the same morning. The first, from a shopkeeper, was written in Urdu and has been rendered into English by the junior clerk as follows: 'The applicant requests that the wall of the government school in front of his shop is falling on his goods and the concerned officer should be ordered to remove it immediately otherwise he will be compelled to take legal action and also his uncle is a retired patwari who says the wall is on his land.

967 words, about 5 min