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Telangana to fix 22A errors within days, says Ponguleti
Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has said the Telangana government will rectify errors in the Section 22A prohibited properties list within days, as registrations in Greater Hyderabad have resumed. In an interview with Times of India, he admitted to administrative lapses that caused private properties to be wrongly included in the list, which stymied registrations in Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Sangareddy districts. Ponguleti said the mistakes arose from mismatches between town survey land records and GHMC ward numbers, and from failure to upload exemption orders for ceiling lands and regularised plots.
The minister rejected opposition allegations that the Congress government had added new private lands to the prohibited list, calling them baseless and politically motivated. He said the lists already existed under the previous BRS government. Meanwhile, Times of India reports that BRS leader T Harish Rao has demanded a Commission of Inquiry headed by a retired high court judge to audit every survey number added or removed from the 22A list since December 2023. He also alleged a racket where property owners were being forced to pay intermediaries up to 30% of market value to get properties removed from the list, and demanded the removal of the revenue minister pending investigation.
The state government has directed collectors in all four affected districts to complete rectifications by the end of the month. Anyone with a grievance can approach the sub-registrar office concerned. Ponguleti said the process is on a war footing and may be completed even earlier.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The pro-government framing leads with the minister's promise of a quick fix and admission of minor lapses, while dismissing the corruption allegations as political diversion. The government-critical framing, from the same outlet, foregrounds a demand for an independent probe and a serious corruption charge (30% collection racket) that the government account does not address at all. Each source omits what the other emphasises: no official denial of the racket appears in the government story, and the critical story does not mention the war-room rectification drive. A careful reader should note that both sides agree on a core fact: thousands of genuine owners are affected. The immediate watchpoint is whether the government meets its end-of-month deadline and whether an independent inquiry is constituted before then.
Coverage: 2 sources, 1 pro-government, 1 government-critical
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com (pro government), timesofindia.indiatimes.com (2) (government critical)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Methodology and corrections.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
