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The Andhra Pradesh Government has removed 5 categories of onshore from the prohibited properties’ database nether Section 22-A of the Registration Act.
Terming it arsenic a New Year gift, Anagani Satya Prasad, Minister for Revenue, Registration and Stamps, told the media astatine the Secretariat connected Thursday that the authorities had taken this determination with the superior nonsubjective of safeguarding the rights of farmers and landowners, and providing long-pending alleviation to genuine titleholders.
Private patta lands had been wholly removed from the 22-A list, the Minister said, adding that officials were instructed to instrumentality suo motu enactment to delete specified lands whenever applications were received.
Lands allotted to serving and retired defence personnel, state fighters, and governmental victims had besides been removed from the prohibited list, provided applicable documents were available, helium said, adding that for defence unit onshore allotments, recommendations made by the District Sainik Welfare Officer would beryllium sufficient.
Similarly, immoderate 1 of the astir 8 types of documents, including 10(1) registers, adangals, SFA records, aged duty registers, DR files, Record of Holdings, registration documents, 8-A registers oregon DKT pattas, would beryllium capable for deletion from the 22-A list. Revenue officials had been strictly instructed not to harass landowners by demanding further documentation, the Minister said.
Mr. Satya Prasad said that successful cases wherever lone a information of onshore successful a survey fig was disputed, authorities had been directed to subdivide the land, clasp lone the disputed information successful the prohibited list, and region the remaining land.
The decisions connected the remaining 4 categories of land, including conditional patta lands, work inam lands and definite categories of dotted lands, would beryllium taken soon aft discussions successful the Group of Ministers (GoM). A last determination connected pre-hold lands would beryllium taken successful 2 months, helium said.
Year of reforms
Declaring the existent twelvemonth arsenic the ‘Year of Land Reforms’, the Minister alleged large-scale irregularities during the erstwhile YSRCP government, and said a broad investigations was underway. “Those progressive successful onshore irregularities volition look the consequences this year,” helium warned.
“Protection of the rights of farmers and landowners is the foremost work of this government,” the Minister said, calling the reforms a important New Year acquisition to the radical of Andhra Pradesh.
