Land survey set to face hiccups

Land survey set to face hiccups
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Though the comprehensive land survey and settlement is all set to begin from September 15, State government is still clueless on deploying required staff and providing logistic support to complete the giant task in the scheduled one month’s time.

Hyderabad: Though the comprehensive land survey and settlement is all set to begin from September 15, State government is still clueless on deploying required staff and providing logistic support to complete the giant task in the scheduled one month’s time.

State Revenue department did not submit any proposal for the deployment of staff from other departments and the required logistic support to the government . It is estimated that 10,000 personnel are required additionally from other departments to complete the survey in a stipulated time.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had recently instructed the Revenue department to hire staff from other departments like Agriculture, Panchayat Raj, Rural Development etc to make success the survey. The Revenue officials were also instructed to postpone all other assignments until the survey is over.

Top officials of the Revenue Department told The Hans India that no official arrangements were made to depute officials from other departments to the villages for the conduct of the survey. As per the schedule, government will conduct survey in 10,875 villages taking every habitation a unit.

The Agriculture department has already taken up the constitution of village, mandal, district and state Farmers’ Associations – the implementing agency of the KCR’s ambitious Rs 8,000 incentive distribution scheme to the farming community from 2018.

Before that, government has decided to conduct land survey to ascertain the land holdings possessed by the farmers in the state. Officials said that without the support of the additional staff, the survey would not be completed in a month time.

The proposal to utilise advanced technology such as Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) and Electronic Total Station (ETS) is yet to be materialised.

It also required to take high resolution satellite images to get the images with greater accuracy in the hillock areas particularly Adilabad, Khammam and Nalgonda districts.

Sources said that the equipment would to have to be procured and dispatched to the districts where it is required. It would also be necessary to seek permission from the Union government to use them, the sources said.

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