CM KCR launches revamped Dharani portal on Thursday

The long-awaited portal, a first of its kind in the country, will be used to store digitised land records and for property registrations, thereby doing away with the need for a human interface and eliminating the scope for graft 

Ushering in a revolutionary system in the Revenue and Registration departments, the Telangana government on Thursday launched the Dharani portal, a first of its kind in the country, for storing digitised land records and registration of properties. 

This means, property registrations would be done without a human interface from now on, eliminating the scope for corruption. The service, which was temporarily stopped on September 7, resumed with the launch of the portal. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao unveiled the portal at Muduchintalapalli village in Medchal-Malkajgiri on Thursday. 

But officials would register only agricultural lands for now. "It will take 15-20 days for the registration of non-agricultural properties to commence," Rao informed reporters during an informal chat.

At the public meeting in Muduchintalapalli after launching the portal, he said Telangana will soon emerge as a territory free of land disputes. 

"Our ultimate goal is to give conclusive land titles to the people," he said.

The Dharani portal will be a trendsetter for the country, he said, adding that TS was the first State in the country



to use IT in its Revenue Department. Already, 1.45 crore acres belonging to around 59 lakh farmers, which were free of disputes, have been uploaded on the portal, he said. 

The Chief Minister further said illegal registration of properties will no longer be done in Telangana. He, however, said there will be some teething troubles in the portal for the initial few days, for which technical teams have been constituted. Additionally, VROs, who were removed from the Revenue Department, would be accommodated in other departments, he said. 

Labour Minister Ch Malla Reddy and Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar were present on the occasion.Also, the Telangana government would soon invite tenders for the comprehensive geographic coordinate land survey.

The Chief Minister said the government can choose to hide the details of valuable non-agricultural properties on the Dharani portal. This assumes significance as there have been instances of people threatening owners of such properties to divulge details, while their children are overseas.

The property registrations, except non-agriculture properties, resumed in the state from Thursday with the launch of the Dharani portal. Earlier, farmers were supposed to go to the Revenue Division Office for mutation of records. Now, the mutation will be done automatically once the property registration is done.