Survey undertaken to save state lands
With only one surveyor, process to take at least 6 months
Following the reports submitted by the Reven ue Task Force on encr oachment 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. Raghunan dan Rao has sanctioned `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 Man dal 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 Nall agandla and Gopanpally villages and a survey is being done now at Kan che Gachibowli and Gachibowli areas.
An official from the Collectorate said that compared with other revenue mandals, Seriling ampally was having mo re 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 rep ort, 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.