Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has decided to take a firm stand against private land grabbers who have looted government lands and the revenue officials who have helped them, during the previous regime. He has ordered the Revenue Department to register criminal cases with solid evidence against land grabbers and officials who have become key partners in the illegal activities by making the revenue system a slave to them.
He has directed that no one should be spared and that those responsible for looting government lands should not be spared under any circumstances. He has made it clear that a criminal case should not be filed on the orders of the government and that clear evidence should be attached to show how many violations of the law the officer facing charges has committed upon receiving the complaint.
The CCLA has submitted the re-verification report of the land records being conducted in the state for the last six months to the Chief Minister. According to the report, 13,59,805 acres of assigned, dotted, inam and conditional patta lands were de-notified from the list of prohibited lands 22A during the Jaganmohan Reddy’s regime.
The coalition government is re-verifying the records of those lands with teams of deputy collectors. So far, the records of 13.48,254 acres of land have been verified. The records of 11,551 acres are yet to be verified. The land that was illegally de-notified from the list 22A in violation of the Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfer-POT) Act, GO 596 and inam laws has been determined to be 4,21,433.97 acres. It is learnt that the Chief Minister was shocked to see these statistics.
After reviewing the records, the Revenue Department has selected the top ten mandals in terms of land irregularities. These are in Sri Sathya Sai, Chittoor and Annamayya districts and directed to initiate action against land grabbers.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister said that revenue conferences should be held in December. He said that the requests received from the public and the orders given by the authorities to resolve them should be included online. He said that a special auditing should be conducted with a third-party organization on the resolution of those requests.
