CM KCR launches Dharani portal in Telangana
Vanam Jwala Narasimha Rao
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao
has formally launched the Telangana State’s Dharani Portal, the
integrated land record management system, at Moodu Chintalapalli
Village in Medchel-Malkajgiri district on Thursday, the 29th October
2020, thus creating history in the chronicles of Land-related records,
registration and mutations. With the launch of Dharani Portal, the CM, for the
first time in the country, has signaled to put an end to land related disputes,
problems, and tedious procedural lapses once for all. This is the beginning of
a Land and property disputes free Telangana State and a step towards conclusive
title in the near future.
After inaugurating the Dharani Portal,
the Chief Minister addressed a gathering adhering to Covid guidelines,
consisting of farmers, people, officials and public representatives. Speaking
at length the CM said he had chosen Moodu Chintalapalli as it was the native
village of a well-known first-phase 1969 Separate Telangana Movement leader
Veera Reddy. Prior to launch of the portal CM KCR had garlanded the statue of
Veera Reddy as a mark respect and gratitude.
During the hour-long address, the CM
dwelled at length on how the value of land was recognized only after people
started organized agriculture in the world. He also cited from history several
incidences where an attempt was made to make Land Acts, reforms and the origin
of the land records.
CM KCR said unlike other political
leaders and parties, he would prefer to take decisions and initiate policies
that will bring in more welfare to people but never any harm. “I have no right
to make any mistake which cause harm to people,” he said. He also recalled how
various schemes, projects and programs that his government launched have
yielded the required results. He recalled how organizations like the Food
Corporation of India, Union Government and Reserve Bank of India have
acknowledged the rapid progress made by the Telangana State in the last six and
half years. The Telangana State per capita consumption of power and per capita
income have increased by leaps and bounds. The crop yields have also increased
by several folds said CM.
Explaining in detail about the Dharani
Portal, the CM said already data and details of 1,45,58,000 Acres of
agriculture land were put on Dharani. The data on the Dharani Portal can be
accessed by any one from anywhere in the world but they cannot tamper with it.
All the government, Endowments, Wakf lands would be auto locked so that nobody
can ever make any attempt to tamper and register them.
Both seller and buyer of the land can
book their slots based on their preference, pay the required registration fee
and mutation fee in advance. On the day the slot is allotted, they can get
their registration and mutation done within 15 to 20 minutes time. Besides the 141 existing
Sub registrar officers, 570 MRO officers are now
designated as Sub registrar offices. The entire land registration, mutation and
updating the data would happen as it would happen in the core banking sector.
No discretionary powers are given to any official and all the registration done
at the prices fixed by the government.
Referring to the Sadabainama lands,
the CM said he would ask the revenue department to extent the period for
regularizing Sadabainama lands for another week. There were 1,64,000 applications came in this regard.
Since any new reform and change in the existing process will have some initial
hiccups and teething troubles, the CM urged the people, farmers and others to
bear with any problems that may crop up in initial days while operating Dharani
Portal. In this context, he said for the last two days, lakhs of people are
accessing Dharani portal and as such its traffic is very high often leading to
hang up for a while.
The CM said to eradicate any litigants
in land rights and land boundary issues a comprehensive digital survey would be
done shortly and each and every piece of land and property would be fixed with
longitude and latitude coordinates. CM said that every inch of land would be
measured and boundaries would be fixed to avoid land related disputes once and
for all. Ultimately the aim is to give conclusive rights on land to the people.
The digital survey would be taken up within a few days and
the work would be taken up at the earliest
said CM. He also said with the success of Dharani Portal and implementation of
new Revenue Act, there would be pressure on other States and also on the Centre
to come out with such Acts.
On August 8, 2017, at the same Moodu Chintalapalli village, CM KCR spoke
about the need and importance of maintaining the land records perfectly. He
also spoke on the need to get some major reform in the land records,
registration, mutation and maintenance without giving any room for the
disputes. He also then spoke about the variance in the land details maintained
by the Agriculture department and the revenue department. Exactly after three
years, the CM today walked his talk and launched the Dharani Portal! This in
itself is an amazing achievement!
For the past three years, as the CM
himself confessed, KCR and a team of senior bureaucrats, experts, legal
advisors have toiled hard to achieve a noble and extremely difficult task of
settling the land related disputes once and for all. About 150
to 200 meetings were held and the in-depth exercise was
also done to find an everlasting solution, which would ultimately lead to the
conclusive ownership rights to the people. This resulted in passing the New
Revenue Act.
Besides enhancing transparency and
efficiency, the portal is aimed at providing accountability and safe and
hassle-free citizen services for land registrations, mutations and transfer. It
is also meant to plug loopholes in the registration process as well as store
all land and property-related information online. The website is designed to
simplify the registration, succession and even partition of agriculture lands,
to ensure that the entire process is completed within a few minutes and the
e-Pattadaar passbook is provided to the land owners immediately. The documents
pertaining to registration, mutation, succession and partition too would be
provided on the spot.
The district collectors have already
made arrangements to ensure complete preparedness in terms of staff and
infrastructure prior to the launch, for effectively rendering citizen services
through the website. A State level control room would be set up to address
technical issues. Similarly, a district-level technical support team would
resolve issues arising in the respective districts.
The Bank authorities also can check
the land details online. This would become the mother of all records. Anybody
can access the data from anywhere in the world. They cannot tamper with the
records but can only view and download the data. To protect such a vital data,
backup mechanism and disaster management technology are used. Under the New
Revenue Act no officer at any level is given discretion power. Nobody would
need to run from pillar to post in the offices.
With VJM Divakar
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