The state government has initiated several steps to rationalize the administration of income from the level of the village.
He has started the process to recruit the personnel of the Income Administration in each of the income peoples of 10,954 throughout the State. Attention now focuses on the recruitment of topographs of around 5,000 to 6,000 in the first phase. The government is interested in following the Karnataka model, where more than 17,000 topographs have been deployed throughout the state.
“We will designate the licensors and scientific methods are being explored in their recruitment,” said the Minister of Income, Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy. Once recruited, the new topographs would receive intensive training for 90 days before deploying them in the field. “The survey is a delicate issue and we want to step cautiously in this regard,” said the minister.
He said that maps prepared by licensed topographs would be examined by government topographs, after which they would enter the records. The effort was aimed at ensuring that the maps are mandatory for the registration of land in the next few days.
The Government already had decentralized powers in land related to issues at different levels in contrast to the system in the previous government of BRS when they were invested in the collector of the district and the head of head of land administration. Referring to the enormous pendency of the complaints received from the people, he said that while 2.43 Lakh requests were pending in the BRS government, 3.48 Lakh were received more since the Tok Congress on the reins.
Consequently, instructions were issued to interested officials to issue speech orders in case the applications were rejected explaining the reasons why Behind rejected. “We are also in the process of establishing land courts in the near future,” he said.
They are working on modalitions on the number of such courts that must be established. The proposals are examined if a court must be established in the 33 districts or one court each for a group of districts. The government was also exploring options to resolve the differences between income and forest departments in the extension of their land owned. “We are committed to protecting the interests of supplies farmers,” he said.
Referring to the regularization of Sada Bainamas (transactions of land on straight paper), he said that the previous government received a great request of 9.62 Lakh, but remained pending. Therefore, it was decided to examine the requests and ensure that the rights of genuine land owners were protected.
Published – April 13, 2025 4:05 PM IST
