State to protect unused lands in RR

Parallel to ongoing land regularisation scheme, the government is driving district administrations to take stock of empty lands in the city in a bid to protect them.

The Ranga Reddy district administration recently identified 850 acres of unused government land free of litigation, including urban ceiling land, which require protection. Fencing of such lands in Khajaguda near Manikonda, Nagole and Malkajigiri has taken place.

Three external agencies have been entrusted with the job of fencing vacant lands in urban areas of the district.

“The lands are being fenced in all urban mandals, specifically in Serlingampally and Rajendranagar mandals where land is highly vulnerable to encroachment,” an official said.

Hyderabad district administration is also said to be making plans to protect at least 42 locations identified by mandal level officials in the recent past.

Verification process

Few days ago, the Commissioner, Land Administration, Aadhar Sinha visited Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy Collectorates to review verification of applications under GO 58.

It was learnt that Mr. Sinha urged both Collectors and their staff to quickly complete verification process by grouping mandals according to the number of applications received and prioritising mandals with small number of applications for completion before the rest.

He also suggested that district administrations should intimate applicants found to belong to above poverty line families (GO 58 is directed at below poverty line families), so they can apply for regularisation under GO 59.

District officials told to identify lands and fence the vacant ones