10 lakh acres of patta lands to soon be out of Dharani \'prohibited list\'
2 years, 1 month ago

10 lakh acres of patta lands to soon be out of Dharani \'prohibited list\'

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Nearly 10 lakh acres out of 15 lakh acres of patta lands across the state that figure in the 'prohibited properties list' on Dharani portal are all set to be freed from the list soon. Official sources said the chief secretary Somesh Kumar and officials from the office of Chief Commissioner of Land Administration are holding meetings with collectors of respective districts to obtain inputs about patta lands that could be removed from the portal’s prohibited list. However, it listed nearly 15 lakh acres across the state under 'prohibited list' after anomalies were found in their records. But the revenue officials listed nearly 15 lakh acres of patta lands owned by private individuals in the list.

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Lagacharla Industrial Park Land Acquisition Process Begins
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Lagacharla Industrial Park Land Acquisition Process Begins

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government has initiated the process of acquiring land for an industrial park at Lagcharla, Hakimpet and Polepally mandals of Vikarabad district. Farmers with Patta land have strongly opposed the acquisition, arguing that the compensation offered of Rs 17 lakh per acre was far below the market rate of Rs 50 lakh per acre. Villagers expressed their anger …

Coimbatore airport expansion: Pending land to be acquired through court under Section 7 (3) of Tamil Nadu Acquisition of Land for Industrial Purpose Act
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Coimbatore airport expansion: Pending land to be acquired through court under Section 7 (3) of Tamil Nadu Acquisition of Land for Industrial Purpose Act

The Hindu  

With the acquisition of land for the expansion of the runway of the Coimbatore International Airport getting prolonged, the Revenue Department has decided to acquire the remaining parcel of land through the court. With the acquisition of the remaining portion of land getting delayed due to various reasons, the Revenue Department has decided to acquire the same under Section 7 …

TN govt panels to probe ‘illegal’ land allocation to private persons
10 months ago

TN govt panels to probe ‘illegal’ land allocation to private persons

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: After facing severe criticism for inaction against officials of the registration and revenue departments who were involved in “illegal allocation” of government land parcels to private individuals, the state government constituted two committees on Wednesday. In an order, B Jothi Nirmalasamy, secretary of the Commercial Taxes & Registration Departments, said a committee led by Chennai Collector Rashmi Siddharth Jagade …

Six lakh acres of forest land wrongly categorised
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Six lakh acres of forest land wrongly categorised

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: The government-appointed expert committee, formed to look into the issues related to Dharani and give suggestions on reforms in the integrated land records management system, has found significant lapses in the management of the portal. The committee reportedly found that thousands of acres of forest lands have been mismanaged or wrongly categorised. Sources suggest that a whopping five to …

BJP calls Dharani biggest land scam
1 year, 1 month ago

BJP calls Dharani biggest land scam

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BJP on Friday accused the BRS government of committing one of the worst and biggest land scams in the country through Dharani portal and set up a cell at its party head office in Hyderabad to receive people’s complaints against the land records portal. BJP state election in-charge Prakash Javadekar said that the software for computerising record of …

CM bestows full ownership rights to beneficiaries of assigned lands in Andhra Pradesh
1 year, 1 month ago

CM bestows full ownership rights to beneficiaries of assigned lands in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu  

The State government bestowed full ownership rights to the beneficiaries of assigned lands, village service Inam lands and on LPS lands benefitting 20,24,709 poor people involving 35,44,866 acres of land. Jagan Mohan Reddy also distributed 46,463 acres of assigned land to 42,307 poor people afresh and handed over lease deeds to 17,768 people allotting them 9,064 acres of riverside lands …

Illegal Allocation of Podu Land Raises Concerns Over Forest Rights Act Implementation
1 year, 4 months ago

Illegal Allocation of Podu Land Raises Concerns Over Forest Rights Act Implementation

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The issues caused by the state government issuing pattas for podu land continues to raise concerns with doubts being expressed if the process under the RoFR Act Act, 2006) was exploited to grant housing plots illegally in forest land. The forest department is learnt to have sought this information as it “needed to know where and how much land …

Telangana Now Third Among States Which Have Distributed Podu Pattas
1 year, 5 months ago

Telangana Now Third Among States Which Have Distributed Podu Pattas

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: A festive atmosphere prevailed in the agency areas that cover 26 districts on Friday with the state government launching the long-pending distribution of podu land pattas for tribals. With this, Telangana would stand third among states which have distributed podu land pattas for 7.14 lakh acres, after Madhya Pradesh at 9.02 lakh acres and Chhattisgarh at 8.98 lakh acres. …

Telangana's podu pattas plan hits fresh hurdle
1 year, 6 months ago

Telangana's podu pattas plan hits fresh hurdle

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana government’s plans to distribute pattas for podu land may run into rough weather with the Central Empowered Committee making it clear that user rights over forest land cannot be given to anyone who does not qualify under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006. The district administrations received some 3.5 lakh applications for podu …

Podu pattas to be given for 1,641 sq km of forest land
1 year, 6 months ago

Podu pattas to be given for 1,641 sq km of forest land

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The state government which promised to give ‘pattas’ for podu lands in the state, is expected to give user rights over occupied forest land extending to more than four lakh acres, or a little more than 1,600 sq kilometres of forest land parcels distributed in 26 districts to identified beneficiaries. According to government data, 1,50,012 claims for podu pattas …

Satellite imagery that speaks the truth, falls by wayside in podu land patta rush
1 year, 9 months ago

Satellite imagery that speaks the truth, falls by wayside in podu land patta rush

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The forest department could have well tied itself into intractable knots over the state government’s promise of providing pattas for 11.5 lakh- odd acres of forest land for the so-called podu cultivation. With such large tracts of forest land coming under occupation suddenly — and worried about the government not being able to keep its promise of pattas to …

Groundwork for patta distribution in full swing
1 year, 10 months ago

Groundwork for patta distribution in full swing

The Hindu  

The District Level Committee has approved approximately 44,000 claims over 1,38,000 acres of forest land from members of Scheduled Tribe communities under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act, 2006, so far in Bhadradri Kothagudem district. In all, 83,341 claims over 2,99,269 acres of forest lands were filed by as many as 65,616 tribal people and 17,725 other …

Eight lakh acres stuck on Dharani: Farmer to HC
2 years ago

Eight lakh acres stuck on Dharani: Farmer to HC

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court took cognisance of the plight of landowners in Mahbubabad district where officials placed 8 lakh acres of land, including those which had pattas, on the 'Prohibited list' in the Dharani portal. The letter stated that 8 lakh acres of land, which had been mentioned as patta lands till the Dharani portal was brought in, were …

Row over TRS\' Banjara Hills land for new office
2 years ago

Row over TRS\' Banjara Hills land for new office

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The proposal to build the city office of the TRS in the upmarket Banjara Hills area has run into rough weather with several plot owners of the Women’s Cooperative Society alleging violation of a Supreme Court status quo order by officials to accommodate the ruling party’s interests. According to the plot owners, the revenue authorities went ahead and allotted …

Podu pattas’ meeting throws up more questions than answers
2 years ago

Podu pattas’ meeting throws up more questions than answers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The one-day stock-taking meeting over the issue of providing pattas between the tribal welfare and forest department officials at MCR HRD Institute in the city, to find ‘solutions’ to ensure distribution of maximum number of such pattas to applicants, is learnt to have left more questions than answers, leaving top government functionaries wondering if the TRS government can keep …

Podu pattas promise: Forest officials feel useless, abandoned
2 years, 1 month ago

Podu pattas promise: Forest officials feel useless, abandoned

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana forest department officials, particularly those at the district level and in the field, are feeling abandoned, crushed, and essentially useless, having been placed at the epicentre of the now-raging podu lands pattas controversy. Officials were also taken aback by minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar's comments to the media at Srinivasa Rao's funeral, in which he stated that the government …

Projects get struck as patta land owners stick to their guns
3 years, 3 months ago

Projects get struck as patta land owners stick to their guns

Deccan Chronicle  

Nellore: Unreasonable demands by land owners as compensation for patta lands is adversely impacting the land acquisition process and by extension the progress of projects like the mega industrial hub close to the proposed Ramayapatnam Port near Kavali and a software park closer to Tamil Nadu border in Tada mandal. For instance, land owners have been demanding a whopping Rs …

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