The meeting discussed options to provide relief to genuine property owners affected by the prohibitory list, including the procedure to remove eligible private properties from Section 22A and whether such properties could be regularised without charges or by collecting a prescribed fee, while ensuring that the government does not face legal complications in the future
Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is likely to announce key measures in the Assembly on Wednesday to provide relief to property owners whose land was included in the Section 22A prohibited list. He is also likely to order a probe into the alleged illegal transfer of Section 22A and other government land to private individuals during the previous BRS regime through the erstwhile Dharani portal.
The Chief Minister on Tuesday held a meeting with ministers and senior officials of the revenue and other departments on the issues surrounding Section 22A. Deputy chief minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, ministers N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, D. Sridhar Babu, Damodar Rajanarsimha and G. Vivek, along with senior officials from the Chief Minister’s Office, revenue, stamps and registration departments, attended the meeting.
The meeting discussed options to provide relief to genuine property owners affected by the prohibitory list, including the procedure to remove eligible private properties from Section 22A and whether such properties could be regularised without charges or by collecting a prescribed fee, while ensuring that the government does not face legal complications in the future.
Revanth Reddy is also expected to present documentary evidence to the Assembly regarding the misuse of Section 22A provisions during the BRS regime and the transfer of government lands to BRS leaders and their supporters through the Dharani portal.
The Chief Minister is learnt to have sought details from officials on how several private properties and entire colonies came to be included in the Section 22A list during the previous governments in combined Andhra Pradesh and also in Telangana state.
He was also briefed on the corrective measures taken by the Congress government, including the removal of eligible properties from the prohibitory list based on complaints received from affected owners through a toll-free call centre.
The number of complaints received through the toll-free call centre has also declined since the government began addressing the issue. The centre received 117 calls on August 18, its first day, followed by 198 on August 19, 189 on August 20, 369 on August 21, 304 on August 22 and 317 on August 24. The number subsequently declined steadily to 56 calls on September 7, official sources said.
The government is also likely to highlight that the Section 22A issue has not caused a decline in registration revenue. Registration revenue during the first five months of 2026-27, from April to August, stood at Rs 7,575 crore compared with Rs 6,216 crore during the corresponding period of 2025-26, representing an increase of about Rs 1,359 crore.
Officials pointed out that the government inherited several errors, discrepancies and incomplete information in land records even before the introduction of Dharani. They said some errors occurred while uploading the data in Bhu Bharati, but the Congress government did not suppress them and instead initiated corrective measures on the Chief Minister’s directions.
They said the process had its legal background in a High Court directive, following which the then government issued GO 121 in 2016 and framed guidelines in 2017. However, the guidelines were not implemented by the BRS government of the time. As a result, 28,611 cases relating to Section 22A were filed in the High Court between 2017 and 2025.
Following further court directions, the Section 22A lists under categories A, B, C, D and E were placed in the public domain on December 3, 2025.
