Hyderabad: Following the reports submitted by the Revenue Task Force on encroachment of government lands in the IT Corridor, the Ranga Reddy revenue officials have taken up a comprehensive survey of the government and assigned lands with the help of the Geographic Information System.
Ranga Reddy district collector M. Raghunandan Rao has sanctioned Rs 10 lakh for the survey and officials will now be in a position to save land records with geo-tagging. Due to the availability of only one surveyor with the Serilingampally Mandal revenue office, officials are saying that the process may take at least six months to complete the task.
Serilingampally is having 26 revenue villages. As per the revenue village structure, officials are holding the surveys. So far, they have completed the survey in Nallagandla and Gopanpally villages and a survey is being done now at Kanche Gachibowli and Gachibowli areas.
An official from the Collectorate said that compared with other revenue mandals, Serilingampally was having more government, assigned and other lands under Urban Land Ceiling (ULC).
“The revenue task force appointed by the chief minister in 2014 did an investigation in Raidurgam Pan Makta area and submitted its report on how encroachers occupied government lands. Based on the report, the collector ordered a survey in the entire mandal area. Some 15 years ago, a similar survey was taken up for allotting lands to IT and other industries. Now, the government’s aim is to protect government lands,” the official said.
Revenue officials are recording the lands in the registers based on the current status, like vacated land, land allotted to others earlier but not in use at present, land claimed by others, and land applied under the regularisation schemes and encroached by private persons.
Officials are installing caution boards and fencing soon after the survey at the field level and sending pictures to higher officials at day’s end.
Survey excludes land claimed by locals under Gos
Officials during their survey are excluding lands claimed by locals under the GOs 58, 59 and 92. Officials would keep such lands’ records with the revenue department, and take action after conclusion of regularisation.
GO 58 was meant for the regularisation of government lands in respect of those who have constructed houses in plots of below 125 square yards, that would be done free of cost. GO 59 enables the occupiers to regularize their land by paying the respective value of the land to the government. Similarly, GO 92 will regularise houses constructed in ULC lands.
Serilingampally Tahsildar S. Tirupati Rao said that the process of the applications under the three GOs was in the final stage and it would not be an impediment to the ongoing survey.
“The surveyors will concentrate on government lands. We have already installed fencing and caution boards at government lands wherever the survey was completed,” he said.
