Chief Minister Sri K Chandrashekhar Rao has decided to conduct digital survey of agriculture lands in the State. As part of it, initially, the CM said a pilot digital survey should be conducted from June11. For this, he has instructed Chief Secretary Sri Somesh Kumar to select 27 villages all over the State and of which, three villages should be from Gajwel Assembly Constituency. The rest 24 should be from the 24 districts in the State.
The CM held a review meeting on Wednesday at Pragathi Bhavan on digital survey issue with representatives from the survey agencies. In this programme, MP Sri Ranjit Reddy, MLC and Rythu Bandhu Samithi State President Sri Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, MLA Sri Maganti Gopinath, Former Speaker State legislative Assembly Sri Madhusudhanachary, Chief Secretary Sri Somesh Kumar, CM Principal Secretary Sri S Narsing Rao, CM Secretaries Sri V Seshadri, Sri Bhoopal Reddy, Principal Secretary (IT) Sri Jayesh Ranjan, DGP Sri Mahender Reddy, Transco, Genco CMD Sri D Prabhakar Rao, Survey and Land Commissioner Sri Shashidhar, TSTS MD Sri Venkateswara Rao, representatives of Digital Survey Agencies participated.
Speaking on the occasion, the CM said, “We have brought in Dharani Portal only to protect the land rights of the poor. With an aim to make Telangana state, a land disputes-free state, the state government is conducting the digital survey of the agriculture lands. The government’s aim is to conduct digital survey of agriculture lands in the state, fix the coordinates and there by provide total security and protection to the pattadars on a permanent basis. The CM clearly instructed the survey agencies to conduct the digital survey efficiently as it was part of the government aim to provide protection to people’s right on land and also understand the good intention of the government behind it. He also advised them not to view this assignment from a commercial point alone but treat this as a social service being rendered to the farmers.
The CM said that initially, the pilot survey should be done in the villages where there are no land disputes.
