Revenue Minister V. Srinivas Prasad has said the State government had fixed March 2016 as the deadline to correct discrepancies in the Record of Rights, Tenancy and Crop (RTC) in the State.
Mr. Prasad, who chaired a divisional-level review meeting of implementation of various programmes by the Revenue Department in Kalaburagi, told presspersons on Saturday that computerisation of the RTCs had not solved the problem and at the time of entry into computers many mistakes have crept in.
“As per the information available with the State government, in more than 50 per cent of the records, defects have been detected,” Mr. Prasad said.
Instructions have been issued to set right these defects during the Revenue Adalats held regularly in the districts. Officials have also been asked to reach out to individual farmers to set right the discrepancies, he said.
Mr. Prasad said fixing of the boundaries of the lands owned by farmers had picked up in the State after the recruitment of 1,693 surveyors. “At present, we have 2,675 surveyors in the State and each of them has been given a target of complete fixing the boundaries of at least 23 lands. They have been asked to clear 3, 58,542 applications by the end of March 2015,” he said.
Mr. Prasad admitted that not all Assembly-wise Bagair Hukum Regularisation Committees under the chairmanship of the respective MLAs have been formed in the State.
Out of the total 199 bagair hukum committees that are to be constituted, only 127 committees have been formed. Another 77 committees are yet to be constituted.
