Only 15 days left to apply for regularising illegal land
Rao urged them to submit applications for regularisation at MRO offices
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday said the state government is giving a last and final opportunity for encroachers to regularise their lands on which houses were built and asked them to utilise it without fail.
He urged them to submit applications for regularisation at MRO offices within the deadline of January 20 and said officials after making ground-level verification of the sites will regularise the lands if they are in accordance with stipulated norms. Mr Rao made it clear that the government will take over all encroached lands for which applications are not submitted within the deadline and invoke the PD Act against encroachers.
“Officials will examine each and every application thoroughly; take up ground-level inspection in three months before regularising such lands. We will complete the entire regularisation process by April 30. From May 1, we will not allow encroachment of even an inch of land in Telangana. We will treat all those as encroachers, who fail to submit applications within the January 20 deadline and get it regularised by April 30. We will take over those lands and invoke the PD Act against encroachers,” he said.
Mr Rao held a meeting with senior officials in the Secretariat to discuss the progress of land regularisation, for which the submission of applications began on Monday.
Stating that the ongoing regularisation exercise was being done only to ensure that there should not be any fresh encroachments from now on, Mr Rao said, “We want to set right all the land records in Telangana. Previous governments in the undivided state allowed rampant encroachments. Though it is wrong to build houses on encroached lands, the Telangana government has decided to give a final opportunity for regularisation. If anyone ignores utilising this and continues to reside on encroached lands, we will not spare them.”
He made it clear that there is no question of giving another chance for regularisation after the ongoing process ends.