Inspection of land in Kommadi village of Visakhapatnam rural mandal has revealed that tampering of records involved 178.06 acres and land in 13.79 acres is under encroachment, District Collector Pravin Kumar has said.
Of the total land of 2,986 acres in Kommadi, a major chunk is forest land (2,162.58 acres); government land and hill porambokes (325.94 acres); zeroyiti (private) land (377.41 acres); assignment land (211.52 acres); and community porambokes (120.07 acres).
The government land was only in two survey numbers, 77/2 and 166/2, and the remaining reserve forest under the Forest Department, he said.
Of the 120.07 acres of community porambokes, 13.79 acres meant for community purposes was encroached upon.
Since all the government lands were notified in “22 A register” and sent to the sub-registrars concerned, no registration sale, lease or mortgage occurred, and all the government land was safe, he told a press conference here.
The tampering of records came to light during the process of putting land records of Visakhapatnam rural mandal in the public domain on ‘WebLand’.
Special teams under the supervision of Joint Collector G. Srijana carried out physical inspection, he said.
The forest land was in possession of the Forest Department and they were also asked to check the records.
When it comes to private land, 1.47 acres of land in 13 private numbers was affected in tampering of “1B” records at Kommadi.
In Madhuawada, records relating to 92.54 acres in 25 survey numbers were tampered with. Most of them were either VUDA lands given in advance possession in 2005-06, involved in writ petitions, or below 100 square yards and applied for regularisation.
In four survey numbers, records involving 5.38 acres of private land were also tampered with.
VUDA should also form teams to verify and check the position of the land, the Collector said.
Since the area was large, the inspection in Madhurwada would take one more week, he said.
All details would be placed on ‘WebLand’ in another two weeks and any members of the public can see them.
Toll-free number
A toll-free number, 1800 425 00002, will be available to report grievances and they would be looked into by the Joint Collector.
A total of six complaints were received at the call centre on tampering of private land and they would be looked into by the Joint Collector.
Replying to a question, he said all the land details in Bheemunipatnam were published in “22 A” register.
Missing records
On the missing of records, he said it had taken place over the last 10-15 years. Since all the records would be preserved in five government offices, copies could be obtained and some had to be prepared after field verification.
They would be restored in three to six weeks, Mr. Pravin Kumar said.
Individual mutation files would also be prepared and included in the ‘WebLand’ and on any change SMS alerts would come to officials.
Replying to a question, he said whether CRZ norms had been violated in the construction of a hotel on the Beach Road had to be looked into.
Ms. Srijana was present.
