Land Regularisation Scheme applicants will have to wait for land papers
Hyderabad: Those who had applied for the Telangana government’s Land Regularisation Scheme will have to wait for a few more months to receive their pattas.
Collectors informed Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao during the just-concluded collectors' conference that they needed more time to ascertain whether the applications fell under the “no objection category” or not.
The government had asked collectors to regularise only those lands that fell under the NOC and reject applications that sought regularisation of “objectionable lands” like those belonging to the Wakf Board and the endowment department or to the defence department or the Cantonment Boards.
The land must not be shikam, disputed or tied up in litigation. After missing the deadline of Ambedkar Jayanti, April 14, for distribution of pattas, the government is now likely to issue pattas on June 2, the first TS Formation Day.
The government had received 3,66,150 applications for the LRS, majority of them from Hyderabad and RR districts. Of them, 3,36,869 pertained to “free of cost land regularisation for poor”, of less than 125 sq. yard plots.
The remaining 29,281 applications pertain to the “payment category” where regularisation will be done on payment of existing market rates.
The government had asked collectors to complete regularisation of the free category applications first. However, the verification done by revenue officials had revealed that only 95,034 applications were eligible for regularisation.
The remaining pertained to “objectionable lands” which could not be regularised as per existing norms and needed to be amended.
While the TRS government had ambitious plans to regularise lands for lakhs of poor in the city ahead of the GHMC elections, the low number of beneficiaries identified by officials has come as a setback.
With this, Mr Rao asked officials to conduct another survey to ensure that the beneficiaries crossed at least a lakh.
The relaxation of regularisation norms involves procedural hurdles and it will take some time. Going by this, officials said the applicants will have to wait at least till June 2 to receive their regularisation pattas.
