Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday said that the cleansing of land records should be done without causing any harm to farmers’ interests. He said that the list of rectified land details should be publicly displayed in the villages with signatures of the farmers.
Mr Rao was speaking at a review meeting with ministers and officials. “Old revenue terms like pahani, sethwari are not Telugu words. Change these terms into simple and colloquial Telugu. There is no need to have so many columns in pahani. The documents should be simple,” he said.
He asked officials to constitute 1,193 teams and allot nine villages to each team. It would then take three months to rectify and update the records. The 31 collectors have been authorised to allot the villages to the teams.
“This is primarily a land records cleansing programme. With this all the matters that create litigations problems should end. The complicated calculations are leading to land litigations and other issues. The sub numbers system should be scrapped. Farmers should get be rid of land related issues and be able to cultivate peacefully,” he said.
Mr Rao said land records should be maintained like core banking system adopted by banks. After the land records updation, all transactions should be updated as was done by the banks digitally. “For this, appoint 1,000 IT officials in the revenue departments. Pattadars should be able to get any information online," he noted.
He said mutation should be done immediately after the registration. Farmers should go to the registration office only once. Their passbooks should be sent to their homes via courier. He asked offcials to abolish all the revenue courts except that of the district collector.
“The practice of farmers pledging their passbooks with banks for loans should go. Instead, banks should give loans based on online information. Land related issues are within the purview of the state governments and hence the decisions of the state government holds good,” Mr Rao said.
