AP Govt mulls mandal-level panels to resolve land grievances

Vijayawada: The state government has planned to set up mandal-level committees across the state to sort out the land-related grievances. The government had already identified 10 lakh grievances were pending with the revenue department across 13 districts.

The dotted lands, lands included in 22-A list and allotment of pattas are in the list of grievances. Identifying the seriousness of problem, the government has decided to set up committees involving the officials and local people to solve the grievances.

According to officials, nearly 56,000 families were waiting for ownership rights in dotted lands section. Similarly, four lakh families have been waiting for house pattas across cities in the state.

Apart from this, more than two lakh families are doing rounds from pillar to post to get exemption for their lands from 22-A list. Though the government had conducted a series of meetings in this regard in the last two years but still many applications were pending with the revenue department.

Even revenue minister K E Krishna Murthy is keen to sort out the issues, the higher officials are not taking enough measures in this regard. The public also questioned the government as to how it could get satisfaction levels while several matters related to revenue department are pending with it. Interestingly the government issued GOs to solve the matter, but the officials are not able implement them citing several technical reasons.

In this backdrop, the government has formally taken a decision to form the mandal-level committees to solve the land-related grievances, said a senior official in revenue department. Speaking to The Hans India, he said the local people would also be involved to resolve the problems along with village-level revenue officers.