Our Bureau
Hyderabad, Feb. 24:
After the Union Government insisting on Aadhaar numbers for consumers to claim subsidy gas, the Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to feed the unique identity numbers in all the revenue cards.
This is among the several major changes mooted by the State Revenue Ministry. The Government would link the records of the Registration Department with that of the Revenue Departments to check malpractices in land registrations.
“We are going to pilot this in three districts. At a later stage, we will expand to the rest of the State,” State Revenue Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy said.
The Ministry would enumerate the availability of Government land and identify the arable land in the next few months. “We will take stock of the availability of Government land and distribute it to the poor in the seventh phase of land distribution,” he said.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he said these and other measures will be discussed at the three regional Revenue Sadassus (conferences) scheduled to be held from next week.
The first in the series will be held at Tirupati on February 26, followed by meetings at Hyderabad on March 2 and Vijayawada on March 5. While the Tirupati meet covers six districts, Hyderabad and Vijayawada conferences would cover 10 and 7 districts respectively.
After the State-level meets, the Ministry would hold meetings in 27,000 revenue villages from March 11. Besides, it would set up an academy to hone the skills of 87,000 employees of the department.
The conferences would discuss the new land allotment policy, protection of the land allotted to the poor, regularisation of unauthorised layouts and disbursal of 10-15 lakh more loan eligibility cards (for tenant farmers).
Under the Mee Seva (the e-governance window), the Revenue Department would take the total of services available to 171 from the present 50. “Revenue is the major interface. Of the 1.20 crore applications received by the Mee Seva centres, 1.13 crore applications were addressed to the Revenue Department,” he said.