Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy announced the setting up of a state-level land titling authority on Wednesday, following the signing of an MoU with Survey of India to take up land resurvey in the state.
The chief minister also held a video conference with district collectors and joint collectors to discuss the resurvey project.
Asking officials to take full responsibility to complete land resurvey with utmost care, he said the resurvey of land and houses will end land disputes. “A comprehensive land resurvey in the state is being taken up after 100 years. We will keep digitalised title details in village/ward secretariat for public scrutiny for two years. We will invite objections about any particular title and resolve all such issues through judicial mechanism. The permanent land/asset title will be issued to the beneficiary two years after the completion of the survey,” Jagan said.
The survey would be taken up with advanced technology by using drones and high-resolution cameras. He said the measurement recorded by drones to be used by SOI would be so accurate that there would be very marginal scope for errors. He directed the district collectors to kickstart awareness programmes across the state from Friday by involving ward secretaries and volunteers. He also wanted grama sabhas to be conducted to create awareness among the public from December 14 to 19.
The CM further said that the government will set up mobile tribunals at the mandal level, besides district tribunals and state tribunal to resolve the disputes about the survey and title. “The government will bear the entire cost to complete the process of resolution of title. The land/asset title to be issued by the state level land title authority would provide full legal rights on the property to the title owners. The title card would be issued with land owner’s photo and QR code which would be useful for the legal heirs of the title owner in handling all future transactions,” Jagan added.
Surveyor General of India, Lieutenant General Girish Kumar, said the Survey of India is proud to join hands with the AP government for the prestigious project. “AP is going to become a model state in the country by taking up a comprehensive resurvey of lands across the state. Our drone cameras can measure the land within five minutes and there would not be deviation by more than three centimetres from the actual record,” he said.
