PATNA, April 7 -- Bihar's revenue and land reforms department on Tuesday pulled out all stops to shake up its deputy collectors land revenue (DCLRs), holding a day-long state-level review and orientation workshop aimed at sharpening their focus on clearing land disputes, speeding up plot partitions and mutations, and cracking down on encroachments on government land, officials said.

Ninety-two of the state's 101 DCLRs turned up at the revenue headquarters in the old secretariat. The session, chaired by principal secretary CK Anil and attended by additional secretary Mahendra Pal and other senior officers, began with a screening test to gauge the officials' grasp of revenue laws.

The timing of the workshop is significant. For nearly a mo...