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Telangana fails to abide by High Court directive
Notwithstanding the High Court orders, the State government has not yet created complete data base of the lands belonging to the Revenue, Endowments, Wakf Board and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to help the state Registration Department in curbing illegal registration of public properties.
Hyderabad: Notwithstanding the High Court orders, the State government has not yet created complete data base of the lands belonging to the Revenue, Endowments, Wakf Board and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to help the state Registration Department in curbing illegal registration of public properties.
The failure on the part of the State government, critics felt, led to land scams. The High Court last year directed the government to set the boundaries of all government lands and assigning survey numbers to them. The court instructed the government to upload all the information on the officials websites of the Revenue and Registration Departments within six months.
But no steps were so far taken to this effect though Registration Department urging the the Revenue Department for the last one year to carry out the court directions, a top official of Registration Department told The Hans India. Under section 22 A (1) of Indian Registration Act 1908, government lands have been divided into four categories to enable verification of the ownership of lands.
Prohibited lands owned by Forest Department would come under A category and Revenue lands are in B category. Under the C category, Endowments lands Wakf Boards lands and the agriculture lands and urban lands owned by ULBs are classified as D category.
As per the rules, State Revenue Department should furnish all the details of the lands under these four categories to the Registration Department from time to time to curb encroachments on government lands and ensure that they are not registered to private persons.
“Lack of information on the status of government lands has come in the way of the Registration Department officials thwarting the manipulators from getting government lands being registered in either their or the names of their proxies,” the officials said.
The officials said the recent multi-crore land scam in which some realtors in collusion with the officials usurped nearly 700 acres of land at Miyapur in Hyderabad was the result of lack of coordination between Revenue and Registration Departments.
Officials said the Registration Department has been encountering a major problems as the government and private persons have same survey number. For instance, the land scam unearthed at Hafizpur village in Ranga Reddy district where TRS senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP K Keshava Rao’s family bought 50 acres of land was part of 2,244 acres of government land in the survey number 36.
In this case the government and the private persons claimed the ownership of the same land. Such instances can be avoided if the government has proper data base, the sources felt.
