KCR Cooperates In Ensuring Smooth Land Re-Survey In Erravalli
“We are setting up the village boundaries. We have not yet entered private patta lands,” assistant director Rathod Sudarshan has clarified.
Siddipet:Former chief minister and BRS supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao has reportedly allowed land re-survey by official teams adjacent to his farmhouse in Erravalli village of Markook mandal of Siddipet district on Wednesday.
As part of re-survey, official teams verified 388.50 acres of land in Erravalli and Shivar Venkatapur villages in survey number 325.
KCR possesses patta lands in Erravalli village. The survey teams approached the farmhouse staff for setting up milestones outside of the farmhouse for re-survey. The former CM agreed to allow the process.
Erravalli and Shivar Venkatapur villagers are surprised over these developments.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, survey and land records department assistant director Rathod Sudarshan said as part of their re-survey in Erravalli village, they are setting up milestones. “We are setting up the village boundaries. We have not yet entered private patta lands,” he clarified. He observed that a section of people are trying to create confusion on re-survey of the government lands.
Sources said Revenue, Survey and Land Records department officials have found that 45 acres of land is missing in a 388.05 acres parcel of survey number 325. Siddipet district collector K. Haimavathi has reportedly submitted a preliminary report on encroachment of government land in Erravalli village to the state government.
The re-survey by officials in Erravalli and Venkatapur villages is going on on the directives of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy since September. It is said the missing 45 acres in the 388.50 acres of government land has been encroached by local farmers over decades.
In the interim, Markook tahsildar has set up warning boards on government lands stating that serious action will be taken against encroachers. Following this, a section of farmers is coming forward to hand over the encroached land to the government. But some of the farmers assert that they have been cultivating the government land for decades. They say it had been given to them as assignment land.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, Yadagiri, a farmer, said negligence of government departments had encouraged them to become encroachers. He urged the state government to regularise the land as a favour to long-time cultivators.
