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Telangana, Andhra Pradesh aim to complete land resurvey by 2027
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are racing to complete land resurveys by March 2027 and 2027 respectively, aiming to fix boundaries and clean up records. Telangana Revenue Secretary DS Lokesh Kumar told The…
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Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are racing to complete land resurveys by March 2027 and 2027 respectively, aiming to fix boundaries and clean up records. Telangana Revenue Secretary DS Lokesh Kumar told The Hans India that the resurvey, already finished in 35 villages, will correct errors, detect encroachments, and assign unique 'Bhudhaar' numbers to parcels. Of the state's 276.95 lakh acres, about 65,000 acres remain disputed.
In Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said at an event in Kaikaluru that the resurvey will cover 9,365 villages in seven months, issuing 68.64 lakh Pattadar Passbooks with blockchain and QR security. He claimed 32.22 lakh passbooks have been distributed so far, and 41,000 acres of land disputes resolved. The Deccan Chronicle reports that the government has also digitised old records and enabled auto-mutation for nearly nine lakh people.
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The bullet-speed rhetoric from Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister masks the real test: will the blockchain-touted Pattadar Passbooks actually reduce litigation? Telangana, meanwhile, promises a clean-up by March 2027, but its own 65,000 disputed acres show the scale of the problem. Ordinary citizens have heard grand land-reform promises before, the 2019-2024 destruction blamed on the previous government cuts both ways. The real measure will be the number of villages where disputes drop after the resurvey, not the passbooks handed out at rallies.
Sources (2): thehansindia.com, deccanchronicle.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
