TS to regularise encroached lands

The state government which is reportedly facing financial crisis has intensified regularization of encroached government lands under GO: 59 eyeing on creation of revenue to fill its coffer.

The government has pinned a lot of hopes on revenue generation through regularization of encroached government lands under GO: 59 but has failed to generate revenue expected till now.        

It is said that state government is making serious efforts to increase its revenue from various sources to meet its requirements and allocations.

The applicants are paying remaining amount to regularize their lands under Government order: 59. Revenue officials are checking measurements of the lands of the house owners for which they applied for regularization.

All ready applicants have paid first installment for regularization of their lands. Revenue department will issue pattas soon to the lands after regularization..

B. Venkatesh of Shantinagar in Adilabad town said revenue officials marking rounds of  applicant’s houses who applied for regularization of land and asking them to pay the remaining amount to get regularized their encroached government land’.

He said ‘revenue officials offered five percent concession in the total amount for onetime payment of total amount’.

The state government has issued GO: 58 and 59 with regard to regularization of encroached government lands. The GO: 58 meant for regularization of encroached government land free of cost if it was bellow 125 square yards for the families of bellow poverty line (BPL).

Adilabad Tahsildar A. Subhash Chander said they were conducting an inquiry into the 454 applications they received for regularization of lands in Adilabad mandal rural and urban and added that they have formed eight teams with land surveyor and Deputy Tahsildars. He said pattas will be issued to the lands of eligible applicants after scrutiny.

The Adilabad mandal revenue officials have received above 3,900 applications seeking the regularization of the lands free of cost for BPL families and revenue officials claimed that they had issued pattas to the lands of BPL under land regularization as per the GO.