Revenue department yet to rectify 2.5 lakh mistakes in records and passbooks

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Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister

K Chandrasekhar Rao

may have taken responded to the grievance of a farmer in Nennela mandal in Mancherial district and instructed swift action on the issue and finally got it resolved the issue within hours. But over 2.5 lakh cases pertaining to various complaints like mistakes in pattadar passbooks, part B (disputed land) and unclear land have not been resolved across the state under the much-hyped

Land Records Updation Programme

(LRUP). Of the total 58 lakh agriculture khatas, the mandal tehsildars have not digitally signed to issue passbooks.

Consider this, SV Ramana had applied for passbook for his land in survey no 147A/1/1 in Malyala village in Bommalaramaram mandal in Yadadri district one year ago and still he is waiting for his passbooks. Like Ramana, several lakhs of people waiting for their passbooks.

The Telangana government had taken up LRUP in September, 2017 with an objective to purify age old land records and to put an end to the land disputes, but the revenue department has not been able to rectify the mistakes even after one and half years. The revenue department could not launch `Dharani’ land records website officially due to technical glitches.

The Chief Commission of Land Administration (CCLA) department, coordinating department for LRUP, taken up the programme in 10,823 villages in 568 mandals by deploying 1,523 teams involving various levels of government officials in the revenue department to visit the village and check the land records and ground position. But many places, the Tehsildars did not go to villages and depend only on the village revenue officers.

According to government statistics, of the 1.94 crore survey numbers in the state, 1.84 crore survey numbers were clear and 10.16 lakh survey numbers land was no clear. “Of 58 lakh agriculture khatas belonging to farmers, only 52 lakhs were signed by the mandal tehsildars and pattadar passbooks were not signed for 5.81 lakh which comes to about 12.72 lakh acres,” an official of the CCLA said.

“The LRUP has become a money minting programme for some officials. The revenue staff demanded Rs 10,000 per acre for issuing pattadar passbooks for me. Since I refused, I did not get it,” P Ramana Murty, a resident of Dharmasagar village in Warangal district said.

When tried to contact special chief secretary (revenue) department Rajeshwar Tiwari did not respond.

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