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Telangana new districts plan hits road block
Telangana State Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s dream to create new districts has hit a road block and may not materialise by June 2016 deadline.
Hyderabad: Telangana State Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s dream to create new districts has hit a road block and may not materialise by June 2016 deadline.
With the authorities struggling hard to draw the new borders of districts on account of land ownership litigation and the incomplete digitalisation of land records, the reorganisation of districts has become a herculean task.
In a preliminary survey conducted by the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA) it was revealed that the creation of boundaries between the existing districts and new districts is not an easy task for the Revenue Department, the only official agency maintaining land records in the state.
The department officials briefed The Hans India that the existing land records prepared during the Nizam rule in 1938 were not of any help as much as of the land records were not matching to the ground reality. Some of the land stretches were either encroached upon or the records for some were not available. Added to this, many irregularities occurred in the registration of the land in the undivided Andhra Pradesh.
In some cases, litigations pertaining to the ownership of land between the government and encroachers were pending in the courts and the cases were at different stages of disposal. The survey results said the department was facing hurdles in Nalgonda, Khammam, Warangal and Ranga Reddy districts in finalising the border.
The government had proposed to carve Suryapet out of Nalgonda, Kothagudem out of Khammam, Janagaon in Warangal and Vikarabad district from Ranga Reddy districts. A senior official said that not taking up land survey for every 30 years as mandated by the union government was the result of the present crisis.
Protracted delay in the digitalisation of land records was also a hurdle in the process for the creation of new districts taken up by the 4-member official committee headed by Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma.
The officials said the digitalisation of land records will make it easy to identify the private and government land, which would help to estimate the total assets possessed by the proposed new district and the old district. It is mandatory that the assets owned by each district, including existing and new one should be finalised and made public at the time of publication of gazette on new districts.
It may be mentioned here that the Centre had allocated Rs 120 crore for the digitalisation of land records. The project has been taken up in all districts other than Hyderabad and Nizamabad under the National Land Records Management Project last year.
By:Patan Afzal Babu
