Days after announcing a comprehensive programme to conduct land survey afresh, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the officials concerned to ensure that the interests of farmers were not affected during the rectification, simplification and cleansing of land records.
The entire exercise should be taken up in a transparent and easy manner enabling people to understand the benefits involved in it. The officials concerned should focus on rectification of 95 % of litigation-free lands in the first phase and once completed, the lists of rectified records should be displayed village-wise along with signatures of farmers.
The Chief Minister gave these directions during a review meeting here on Wednesday which was attended among others by Deputy Chief Minister Mohd. Mahmood Ali, Municipal Administration Minister K.T. Rama Rao, Chief Secretary S.P. Singh and GHMC Mayor Bonthu Rammohan Rao.
Online records
Mr. Rao favoured implementation of a system on the lines of the core banking system deployed by the banks in land record updation. All the transaction should be made digital and hosted online on a daily basis so that the land owners could get the details of their lands online and the departments concerned could utilise the services of 1,000 IT-trained officials in this direction. The departments concerned would be allowed to buy new servers and other requirements for integration of the records. Steps should be taken to ensure that mutation process was completed immediately after registration and passbooks handed over to individual farmers at their doorstep.
Old terms
He wanted all the revenue courts to be abolished except that of the District Collector. Effort should be made to replace old revenue terms like pahani, sethwari into simple and colloquial terms as also doing away with the present system of incorporating numerous columns in the pahanis.
The Chief Minister directed the officials concerned to constitute 1,193 teams allotting nine villages to each team. The collectors concerned would be authorised to allot villages to these teams and they should be given three months time for rectification and updation of the records.
Old numbering
The programme was aimed at doing away with litigations and the by-numbers system presently in vogue should be totally done away with.
The practice of farmers pledging their passbooks with banks would be a thing of the past and banks would themselves give loans based on the information on land records available online.
The Government was also considering giving incentives to RDOs, MROs and other officials involved for timely completion of the process and finer modalities of the scheme would be finalised during the Collectors’ Conference slated here on Thursday, he added.
