Revenue dept yet to rectify 2.5 lakh errors in records, passbooks

HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao may have addressed the grievance of a farmer in Nennela mandal in

Mancherial district

within hours, but over 2.5 lakh complaints about mistakes in pattadar passbooks, part B (disputed land) and unclear land are still pending 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 5.81 lakh khatas to issue passbooks.


One SV Ramana had applied for passbook for his land in survey number 147A/1/1 in Malyala village in Bommalaramaram mandal of Yadadri district a year ago and is still waiting for it. Like Ramana, lakhs of people are waiting for their passbooks.

The Telangana government had taken up LRUP in September 2017 with an objective to update age-old land records and put an end to 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), the coordinating department for LRUP, took up the programme in 10,823 villages in 568 mandals by deploying 1,523 teams. Various levels of government officials from revenue department had to visit the villages and check the land records and ground position. However at many places, the tehsildars did not visit villages and depended on the village revenue officers for information.

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 were not clear. “Of 58 lakh agriculture khatas belonging to farmers, only 52 lakh were signed by the mandal tehsildars and pattadar passbooks were not signed for 5.81 lakh which comes to about 12.72 lakh acres of land,” a CCLA official said.

“The LRUP has become a money minting programme for some officials. The revenue staff demanded ?10,000 per acre for issuing pattadar passbook. I refused to give money, so I did not get the passbook,” P Ramana Murty, a resident of Dharmasagar village in Warangal district said.

Special chief secretary (revenue) Rajeshwar Tiwari was not available for comment.