Thousands of farmers who lost access to their lands or were denied registration due to procedural lapses under the Dharani portal are now pinning their hopes on the Bhu Bharati Act.
Adilabad:Thousands of farmers who lost access to their lands or were denied registration due to procedural lapses under the Dharani portal are now pinning their hopes on the Bhu Bharati Act. With its promise of resolving 90 per cent of land-related issues at the tahsildar level, the new mechanism offers hope that they will no longer need to approach RDOs or collectors, unlike in the past.
Farmers are now actively participating in Bhu Bharati awareness meetings, seeing them as a path to long-awaited justice. Many shared bitter experiences of running from pillar to post — even reaching out to the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA) — to settle long-pending land disputes, only to end up losing both money and time.
Officials clarified that under Bhu Bharati, farmers still retain the right to appeal to the CCLA if they are not satisfied with the orders passed by tahsildars, RDOs or district collectors. The Bhu Bharati Act offers a framework to resolve issues involving lands kept under Part B in Dharani, as well as lands held under Sada Binama transactions.
Among those who lost hope is T. Dattu of Taroda (B) village in Bhoraj mandal. He has been struggling for years to register his Sadabinama land. "Twenty years ago, my father purchased 12.3 acres in Survey No. 12 of Foujpur Shivvar under a Sadabinama, but I could never get a patta for it through Dharani. I now hope that Bhu Bharati will finally help me secure legal ownership," he said.
He is not alone. Several farmers who had given up on obtaining pattas or correcting land records are now flocking to the Bhu Bharati awareness camps and submitting their applications to revenue officials. Many complain that their pattas record less land than what they actually own, while others say land was incorrectly added to or removed from their holdings.
They believe that ground-level physical verification by surveyors under the new Act will address these anomalies. With a mechanism that brings resolution closer to the village level, farmers see in Bhu Bharati a long-overdue opportunity to reclaim their rights.
