Visakhapatnam: Minister for revenue and stamps Dharmana Prasada Rao said there was a need to explore the avenues to bring in changes in the rules and decades-old laws related to the land.
Addressing a press conference in Visakhapatnam on Saturday after conducting a regional revenue officers meeting, the minister said the land has been the most important asset for the state and a lot of changes had come up over its utilisation.
“Earlier, the land was used primarily for agriculture but now it has become an important capital asset that can be used for the development of the state and nation and generate revenue,’’ the minister said.
The revenue department assessing its value has been deliberating on the changes in the laws that need to be brought. This had been discussed in this meeting, the third and last after Vijayawada and Tirupati deliberations.
“Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy wants maximum utilisation of the land, treating it as an important asset,’’ Prasada Rao said.
The chief minister suggested that the living standards of the people would improve if the dispute related to lands were solved and brought into use. This is the reason why he appointed efficient revenue officers to solve the legal problems, he said and added that massive surveys were being taken up using modern technology and now surveyors were appointed in every village to hasten the process of the survey.
He said the government had decided to confer land rights on the farmers who have been harvesting the lands for ages. The auto mutation was also being introduced so that the mutation could take place moments after the completion of the registration process, he added.
He said so far house sites were given to 32 lakh beneficiaries by spending Rs 12,000 crore for land acquisition.
Collectors, joint collectors, DROs, RDOs and tahsildars of nine coastal districts participated in this regional conference.
CCLA G. Sai Prasad, CCLA additional secretary A. Mohammed Imtiyaz and stamps and registration commissioner Ramakrishna and others were present.
