By Express News Service
Published: 11th August 2015 04:32 AM
SANKARAM (VISAKHAPATNAM DT): Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu kick-started ‘Mee Intiki-Mee Bhoomi’ programme, reforms in the Revenue department, Monday. The reforms included digitising land records and linkage of Aadhaar cards with revenue records. At a massive public meeting, the CM said that the digitising programme would provide hassle-free revenue services and announced that all the revenue records, including Adangal, 1B and FMB (field measurement book), would be computerised.
Existing procedures have been making it difficult for land owners to get clear title deeds and authorisation letters from the revenue officials. To cap it, land grabbers are producing fake documents, creating trouble for the actual owners. The people are also facing troubles in obtaining income, nativity, caste, date of birth and other revenue certificates from tahsildar offices. The government decided to introduce radical reforms in the Revenue Department, and replace the age old procedures.
As part of the reforms, the Chief Minister launched the Mee Intiki-Mee Bhoomi scheme. All land-related issues have been digitised and an exclusive website was launched. All survey numbers, names of the owners and their ancestors, present cultivator, crop or vacant land and measurements of boundaries have been digitised. The CM appealed to the people to check the data and inform the concerned officials of any changes by August 31.
He also announced that the government had decided to do away with the caste, income, date of birth and nativity certificates. Since Aadhaar and ration cards contain all the information there was no need for certificates. Aadhaar card linkage is the solution to several issues, he said.
“There are 2.24 crore survey numbers in the state and over 72 lakh pattadar details are computerised which can be cross-checked in the Mee Bhoomi portal. All revenue officials have been provided with Tablet PCs and directed to update the data periodically. The people need not visit the Revenue Department for any certificate and can also get details of ancestral property from the portal. In fact, the programme was initiated in 2003 but during the decade-long Congress tenure, it was neglected,” Chandrababu Naidu said.
The traditional chain link survey would be stopped and advanced survey machines ‘ECS’ were being introduced in the state, Naidu added.
‘Spl Status Needed’
On the special status to the state, the Chief Minister said that it was badly needed. He said there were some key issues pending with the Union government, including railway zone, Polavaram project, 2014-15 revenue deficit of `15,500 crore and funds for capital construction. He will be meeting the PM soon to discuss the issue, he said.