Delay in rectifying survey records

The long-standing delay in carrying out rectification of survey records is creating panic among property owners, who complain that their applications have been pending for periods ranging from three months to over one year.

For instance, Mr Mohammad Najmuiddin, a resident of Sarfaraz Jung Colony, Falaknuma, has been making frequent visits to Kamareddy from Hyderabad for over three months to get his survey numbers rectified.

Mr Najmuiddin got the order for rectification of errors from the commissioner, Survey Settlements and Land Records, in March 2018. The order pertains to rectification of settlement errors in survey numbers 93/1 and 93/5 measuring 2 acres and 26 guntas and 0.04 guntas of Tadkote (V), Banswada, Nizamabad district.

In a written complaint to Telangana state Chief Secretary S.K. Joshi, Mr Najmuiddin said the inspector of Survey Land Record, Kamareddy, was not obeying the instructions of the Commissioner of Survey Settlement and Land Records.

“For three months, the inspector has been adopting delay tactics as the office superintendent, Mr Venktesh, is deputed at Kamareddy district and at Nizamabad district. He’s alternatively working three days in each district. But he’s not attending his duties for last one month, due to which I am suffering a lot as I have to travel from Hyderabad to Kamareddy,” Mr Najmuiddin wrote.

“I request you to take necessary action,” Mr Najmuiddin, a government pensioner, said in the complaint.

In response, Mr L. Shashidhar, commissioner of Survey Settlements and Land Records, in an order to the inspector of survey in Kamareddy, said: “Attention is invited to the references cited. It’s requested to get the hearing completed at joint collector level along with condonation of delay and take necessary action in the matter at the earliest.”