Apart from the Telangana government that is hoping to get clarity in the matter of different categories of lands in the State from the exercise initiated for purification and updation of land records, the kin of the Seventh Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan are also hopeful that the ongoing process would throw light on the Nizam’s private properties (lands).
“We expect that the ongoing land survey would also help in resolving the issue of compensation for Nizam’s land pending for long. We appeal to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for an instant and sustained action regarding our long-pending issue of compensation and justice,” Nawab Najaf Ali Khan, grandson of the Seventh Nizam and president of the Nizam Family Welfare Association, told The Hindu .
He explained that “from the immovable properties that belonged to our grandfather late Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur Nizam VII, the State Government claims that it had purchased 15,946 acres of land in the surroundings of Hyderabad city for ₹ 4 lakh in 1956.”
The land also forms part of the ‘Blue Book’, the inventory/book of the personal properties of Nizam VII, he stated.
However, there was no proof of the combined Andhra Pradesh Government making any payment to the kin of the Nizam and since the land had already been made use of by the government for different purposes, the only way left was to settle the matter with due compensation, he said, adding that then Chief Minister N. Janardhan Reddy had announced in September 1991 that a special court would be set up to look into the encroachment of private properties of the Nizams, but of no avail.
A day before the Telangana Chief Minister extolled the services of Nizam in the Assembly on November 9, Nawab Najaf Ali Khan wrote to the former seeking audience for submitting a representation on the compensation due for the personal properties of the Nizam acquired by the State Government.
He noted that in response to his letter to the State Government in November 2014, the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration was told to examine the issue. Later, he had also written two more letters in February 2015 and in February 2017.
Attempts to contact the officials of CCLA for their version proved futile as they did not take the phone calls. Appreciating the State Government’s plans to bring back the Nizam’s jewellery that was acquired by the Centre in 1995, Mr. Najaf Ali Khan observed that it was the heritage of the region.
