CM KCR held meeting with collectors, RDOs on revenue records

Hyderabad, Sept 1: The Telangana Chief Minister
K. Chandrashekhar Rao has conducted a review meeting with the Collectors, Joint Collectors, and Revenue Divisional Officers (RDOs) here on Thursday pointed out that non-maintenance of revenue records has triggered litigations.

The Revenue officials have abandoned their primary duty of maintaining the revenue records and instead they are busy implementing several welfare and development programs.

The Chief Minister discussed on rectification, cleansing, and updating of land records, here at Pragati Bhavan, directed the officials to take up the land survey mission on top priority.

He referred to the reports that the land details submitted by the Agriculture and Revenue Departments did not match with each other. It has created a serious hurdle for the government to provide input assistance of Rs 8,000 per acre for two crops to the farmers.

Further, the government had acquired several lakhs of acres of lands for laying railway lines and building schools and hospitals. But the records, which were not updated, showed the lands acquired by the government were still in the names of the farmers. It led to disputes and conflicts, he said.

For this purpose, the Chief Minister asked the Revenue officials to first cleanse the ownership rights of undisputed lands comprising around 95 per cent of lands in a village.