Land resurvey covers 1,000 villages in first phase

The comprehensive resurvey of agricultural lands started by the Revenue department has crossed the 1,000 villages mark.

Of the total 10,954 villages across the State, the government has selected 70 villages each from the 32 districts except the State Capital. A total of 2,720 villages, including villages that were not covered in any survey in the past, are being covered as part of the first phase of resurvey of which, the exercise is completed in 1,000 villages and the process was in final stages in 416 villages.

The State government has taken up the survey exercise after a gap of over 125 years and officials have been directed to conduct the entire process with transparency without impacting the interests of the landowners. Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy wanted officials to see that there is no compromise on the accuracy of the survey.

The survey exercise should be strictly based on the revenue records. Notices if any should be served on the owners calling for objections once the process was completed. Farmers should be educated about the processes involved and the officials concerned should not leave any scope for future litigations. Ensuring clear rights to landowners was the main objective behind the resurvey which sought to resolve disputes pending since generations.

The Minister directed the officials to ensure that the views of landowners were adequately considered during the survey and there should be no compromise on their interests.

Mr. Srinivasa Reddy elicited feedback from officials on the response from farmers and the problems that were being encountered at the field level in conducting the survey. He instructed the officials to thoroughly examine revenue records of the villages before initiating the survey process and the survey work should be followed by serving notices to the landowners.

This would enable landowners to convey their views relating to the survey work and grievances should be resolved. Accordingly, landowners should be educated about the process of registering their grievances/complaints if any so that the exercise was conducted in a transparent manner.

The resurvey should be followed by giving Bhudhaar numbers to all land parcels on the lines of Aadhaar so that there was no scope for any disputes in future.