Revenue Minister confident that major chunk of land issues will be resolved by August 15  

Telangana Bhu Bharati Act aims to rectify land rights issues, educate public, and hold officials accountable for mistakes.

Reiterating the Congress government’s commitment to restore rights on land to genuine owners, Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has said the Telangana Bhu Bharati (Record of Rights) Act, 2025 has been designed to rectify the mistakes like entry of wrong names, resolving issues pertaining to prohibited lands and others.

Steps have been taken to ensure that the Act as well as the rules governing it can be understood by laypersons. The Act has been drafted after touring 18 States to study similar legislations being implemented there and the final Bhu Bharati Act was prepared after holding elaborate consultations with experts and stakeholders.

The Minister was speaking in the awareness meetings on Bhu Bharati conducted at Kamareddy, Warangal and Khammam districts on Tuesday. The Minister exuded confidence that land related issues would be resolved to a major extent by August 15, the Independence Day, providing much needed relief to the people.

Mr. Srinivas Reddy made a trenchant attack on the previous BRS government that enacted the Records of Rights Act in 2020 but failed to prepare rules for its implementation in the next three years when it was in power. Vast extent of lands were misappropriated in the name of Record of Rights Act and Dharani portal resulting in sleepless nights to genuine landowners, but the previous government did not initiate any steps to remedy the situation.

Vexed with the situation, they taught the BRS fitting lessons in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. “These (BRS) leaders are now shedding crocodile tears on land issues. Our government is committed to do justice to the people and we are firm on ensuring that land is restored to all genuine owners who lost it,” he said.

He said several steps had been initiated to educate people about the provisions of the Bhu Bharati Act and 3,400 petitions had been received in the 20 meetings convened in the villages so far. The new legislation, he said, had incorporated grievance redressal mechanism at different levels and the government was firm on initiating action against the officials found guilty of committing mistakes.

Simultaneously, steps had been initiated to put in place revenue administration at the village level through appointment of officers in all 10,956 revenue villages. In addition, the process for recruiting over 1,000 licenced surveyors had also been put in place to ensure that they would correct the records at the village level after conducting survey.