HYDERABAD: Taking into consideration concerns of farmers and landowners that arose after Dharani portal, an integrated land records management system, was introduced four years ago, the Telangana govt has focused on 10 major issues — appeals in revenue courts, prohibited land parcels, corrections in land records, mutations, succession, and other matters— and incorporated them in the new Record of Rights (RoR) bill, with the aim of providing solutions to their problems.
The govt hopes to address these issues by incorporating some new clauses in the new Bhu Bharati Bill, delegating powers to revenue officials, and reviving some old provisions. It is hoped that the new clauses would resolve almost all Dharani-related issues.
There were over two lakh applications on Dharani-related issues pending with the revenue department until last year and lakhs of acres were put on the prohibited list, barring people from transacting on the land. For even small corrections, farmers and people were forced to make rounds of the district collectorates and the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA) offices.
Apart from creating new modules and streamlining the existing ones, the govt stated that applicants could now know where their application is pending and the status of their application via their mobile number. The major demand for the appellate mechanism at various levels has now been created.
“The govt gave top priority to the adjudication of land entries in Part B, about 18 lakh acres, for which digital sign was done by the revenue officials. As they were in Part B, many of them did not get pattadar passbooks and did not get Rythu Bandhu. If they are resolved, they will get passbooks and also input subsidy,” revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said, introducing the bill in the assembly on Wednesday.
Till date, there was no provision to make corrections in land records on Dharani, which could be done only through a court order. The govt proposed corrections and resolving the Part B (land parcels classified as disputed land between two private parties).
There were numerous complaints about the succession of properties through Dharani, as the existing provision does not give any powers to tahsildars to stall the succession or mutation with a clause ‘auto mutation’ of the property immediately after the sale, gift, mortgage, and joint statement in case of succession, survivorship, and inheritance. Tahsildars can issue notices to the family members and mutate only after being satisfied with their reply.
“Under the new RoR Bill, if there is any suspected fraud in the succession, the tahsildar can clear it after an inquiry. In cases of occupancy rights certificate, sub-collector or RDO, after inquiry in cases of land rights obtained through civil or revenue courts, Lok Adalat award, 38E and 13B, and other modes, will issue the document,” the bill stated.
Also, the RoR Act, 2020, was applicable only for agricultural land and not govt or jagir land, etc. Now, a new provision has been incorporated in the bill where the properties on ‘Abadi’ land and ‘Gram Kantam’ can be registered. Abadi land is the land set apart in a village, for dwelling and incidental purposes. Through the Bhu Bharati Act, the govt tried to resolve the issue of regularisation of Sada Bainamas, where land sale transactions occurred on plain paper, by incorporating a clause. With this, over 9.24 lakh pending applications could be resolved, the minister stated.
Source Homevior.in
