pune the registration department has been advocating compulsory registration of leave and licence documents but does not have the adequate workforce to process the papersduring the last fortnight over 2000 documents have been registered online alone however the registration department has not been able to clear the papers because of staff shortagereal estate stakeholders and citizens said there has been a delay of 1015 days on an average to receive the registered leave and licence documentson one hand the state government is encouraging eregistration of the leave and licence documents on the other hand there is only one subregister office to handle the issues see graphic as a result over 2000 registered documents are yet to be cleared said sachin shinghvi president of the association of real estate agents that has raised the issue with the registration department shinghvi claimed that the registration process was taking over 1530 days this will in turn make people revert to the notarized registration process the department has to take cognizance of the difficulties faced by the consumers he saidinspector general of registration and stamps maharashtra anil kawde admitted that there has been issues with the processing of the leave and licence documents and pledged to look into the issue at the earliest he said theres a sudden spurt in the number of eregistrations plans are afoot to have more offices dedicated to process the applications both the online and offline ones we had just three to four offices processing the large number of eregistrations of leave and license documents coming mainly from pune mumbai and thane we are looking forward to having more offices at the earliest to ensure that the citizens are not inconvenienceda citizen who was planning to register the leave and license was told by his service provider that it would take some time because there were some issues i am now waiting for the situation to be streamlined we were told that the department was among the first to adopt to cloud technology this year but the difficulties during the precloud days are continuing to haunt the citizens he said the department is encouraging people to go in for eregistrations however there are not adequate number of people to process the documents he addedin january last year the maharashtra government had unveiled a public cloud policy virtually mandating its departments to shift their data storage on to the cloud the policy was compliant with the union governments national data sharing and accessibility policy 2012 which mandates facilitation of access to governmentowned shareable data in human readable and machine readable forms the objective was to use public cloud in cases wherever the right to information act is applicable and then go in for enhanced security features for private and sensitive datathe state government has empanelled five service providers to store about 125 lakh documents from all its departments but while eregistering the documents the citizens continue to complain about instances of the server remaining down on the other hand