Complaints from the public are coming in large numbers in the revenue conferences. From the 6th to the 13th, when these conferences began, within a period of 8 days, 62,732 complaints were received. Of these, 32 percent were related to land grabbing, encroachment, and tampering with records.
Another 45 percent were on errors in land surveys, according to official sources. A total of 2.63 lakh people participated in these conferences. The irregularities committed during the previous Jaganmohan Reddy’s regime are coming out in the form of requests. This has left the revenue department somewhat surprised and worried.
The department has learned that the mistakes made by the revenue field machinery and errors in the re-survey have caused huge land problems. The Madanapalle files burning incident happened as soon as the coalition government came to power. Public requests are coming to the government from there one after the other.
1.74 lakh complaints have been received from the TDP and Jana Sena party offices and the village secretary’s office. Officials have reported that 73 percent of these have been resolved. Out of these, 67,000 are to be resolved by the Revenue Department, while 83 percent have been resolved.
The issues that officials are reporting as resolved are again reaching the government in the form of requests in revenue conferences. This means that the solution is all a sham. Will the Revenue Department still resolve public requests rationally? Or will it change the past model into a false one? There are doubts.
Lands and properties are the basis of livelihood for people. The victims are complaining about what will happen to them if the officials create problems for them. Experts are demanding that they be resolved systematically instead of giving false reports to the CM like in the past.
Senior officials suggest that a system should be made available to inform the government directly about the problems whether they have been resolved or not.