HYDERABAD, May 13: The shifting of offices of revenue, city survey, cane commissioner and other departments from the collector's office building will cause inconvenience to people, specially those hailing from rural areas.

The shifting would begin soon, information collected by this correspondent revealed on Thursday. The district judiciary and the Sindh chief secretary, under directives of the Sindh High Court, has asked the DCO to hand over the building, the property of the revenue department, to the district judge for setting up lower courts and judicial magistrates there.

DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed is scheduled to hold a meeting on Thursday with EDOs to discuss the matter. Fourteen offices are currently working in the building, located in the centre of the city.

The shifting of the offices will entail a tough exercise of collecting and shifting stacks of revenue record to a new venue which is yet to be decided. Some record may also be lost in the process.

The revenue offices have already been handed over to the district judiciary. The office of the DDO, revenue, Hyderabad (rural) taluka, has been shifted to Hussainabad.

People will face hardships as no public transport is available to the new offices. The shifting of revenue offices has caused resentment among people and businessmen have resorted to protest by observing a token hunger strike.

They said that the shifting of the offices was not acceptable to businessmen and people. They threatened to observe a shutter-down strike and launch a protest movement against the move.

A working paper prepared by revenue authorities, a copy of which was obtained by Dawn, said that if the building was handed over to the district judiciary, there would be no alternate building to house the revenue offices.