Five-Member Committee Formed to Suggest Dharani Reforms

HYDERABAD: The state government on Tuesday constituted a five-member committee to look into issues pertaining to the Dharani land portal and recommend measures to restructure it.

The committee comprises Congress Kisan Cell vice president M. Kodanda Reddy, retired IAS officer and former chief commissioner of land administration (CCLA) Raymond Peter, Nalsar University faculty and land law expert M. Sunil Kumar, retired special-grade collector B. Madhusudan and CCLA Navin Mittal.

In a communique, Mittal instructed officers of the revenue department to extend full cooperation to the committee in discharging its duties.

Abolition of the Dharani portal and replacing it with the ‘Bhumata’ portal was a poll plank of the Congress in the run-up to the 2023 Assembly elections.

The formation of the committee comes against the backdrop of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, in a review on December 13, 2023, calling for its formation to prepare guidelines for permanent solutions to land disputes in the state.

He had suggested the committee’s constitution on the lines of the Koneru Ranga Rao Committee in erstwhile undivided Andhra Pradesh. The committee should make recommendations to find a permanent solution to the land-related disputes, he had said.

The Chief Minister also directed the Chief Secretary to submit a comprehensive report on land-related decisions taken since the launch of the Dharani portal.