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Erroneous land records are recipe for land disputes leading in Telangana districts

Multiple registrations were done for the same piece of land in many districts resulting in multiple owners.

Hyderabad: Erroneous land records available with the Telangana state government are giving scope for land disputes. Multiple registrations were done for the same piece of land in many districts resulting in multiple owners.

Though the TS government announced a fresh survey of all lands soon after coming to power in June 2014 by spending Rs 600 crore, it was not implemented even after 2.5 years.

The Centre had agreed to bear 60 per cent of the cost and had even released Rs 80 crore as the first instalment towards its share to take up this survey 18 months ago. These funds lie unutilised.

The reason being cited for this is lack of sufficient number of surveyors to take up the task.

“There has been no recruitment of land surveyors in Telangana for over eight years. Around 450 posts of surveyors are lying vacant due to which the department is not in a position to take up the survey. We have recently initiated the process to recruit fresh surveyors. The comprehensive land survey will be taken up very soon,” said Deputy Chief Minister Mohd. Mahmood Ali, who hold the revenue portfolio.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who took a serious view of rising number of land disputes across the state, had in May this year directed minister and officials to prepare an effective policy to minimise land disputes and land grabbing in the state by correcting land records.

Following this, the officials started verification of computerised land records with manual records and were shocked to detect 49 lakh errors in them.

These errors were detected in five categories such as typographical, survey numbers, extent of land, registered in great-grandparents’ name and wrong land mutations.

Officials brought to the notice of the government that unless a fresh land survey was taken up, it would not be possible to correct the land records to identify genuine owners and land grabbers.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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