By October 2, the process of purification of land records will be completed in all aspects in 42 revenue villages of the district. Anantapur District.
Three drones – two from private companies and one from the Survey of India – are continuously operating with a drone that hovers close to 10 sq km, once it is over agricultural land, houses and a village containing ‘Gram Kantham’ flies (common land).
The process, which started last year at Ramarajupally in the district on a pilot basis, has been completed with the complete data generated by the flight of the drone mounted on the Village Field Measurement Book (FMB) available in 24 villages and all the errors involved have been rectified. The person holding those parcels of land. A similar pilot project was launched last year at Kothapalli in Somandepalli mandal of Sri Sathya Sai district. These villages are among the 2,000 villages that have been targeted to be completed across the state by October 2. There are 919 revenue villages in the undivided Kurnool district, where this process has started.
“We are going cluster-wise to conduct village surveys in Anantapur and Kalyandurg revenue divisions. In Anantapur mandal, where the process has been initiated in Peddavadaguru and Tadipatri mandals, seven mandals of Kalyandurg mandal will be covered by October 2 and each newly verified land parcel map (LPM) will get a new number instead of the old survey number. , or sub-division,” explains Joint Collector Kethan Garg, who oversees operations on the ground.
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Each landholder will get a “Hakku Patram” or passbook for rights over that piece of land and this is different for different types of land such as Patta land, Government Inam land, and land owned by direct purchase or inheritance. Even the land of village Kantham or common village is surveyed and given separate LPM, but in disputes and courts, left with a comment in the column.
In Ramarajupally of the district, the Panchayat Secretary has been trained and does the land registration and transfer work. While general registration is going on in sub-registrar offices in all mandals, the process will be started by other panchayat secretaries from October 2 where the purification process of land records has been completed. “We are training mandal level and village survey staff and panchayat secretaries, where drone flying operations take place. The employees of the surrounding mandals are engaged in the process for the purpose of training, so that when their turn comes, they are fully familiar with the process,” says Mr. Garg.
He said that there is no shortage of trained staff anywhere and since technical resources are limited, the entire district would be taken up in phases.