Andhra Pradesh to Hold 45-Day Revenue Sadassulu from Aug 16

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government would hold Revenue Sadassulu at the village level across the state for 45 days with the aim of resolving all land-related issues. The meetings will start on August 16 and end on Sept 30. This would be preceded by a formal launch event in the districts on August 15. Chief minister Chandrababu Naidu had promised the people during the elections that he would repeal the Land Titling Act and resolve all land-related issues. After assuming charge, he signed the order repealing the land titling act and later the decision won the assembly nod.

The chief minister started a grievances programme in the Telugu Desam central office, where over half a lakh grievances were received from the public in the past 50 days. A majority of these were related to land. Hence, Naidu’s decision to conduct the Revenue Sadassulu. On the CM’s instructions, the revenue department issued guidelines for the Sadassulu. A team of officers from relevant departments would visit each and every revenue village and obtain representations from those having land- related issues. Specific reference is to those affected by land grabbing and Sec. 22A



manipulation.

A senior IAS officer would be designated as the district special officer, who would finalise the district schedule and monitor the village/mandal level petitions as also the receiving/disposing mechanism and ensure redressal within a specified time. All the petitions will be entered online in a separate window created by RTGS in the Grievance Redressal portal. For each Revenue Sadassulu, the joint collector is designated as its coordinator while collectors shall guide the sub-collectors/ revenue divisional officers and Tahsildars to prepare a schedule for the sadassulu in each village in their division and finalise the same by August 13.

A full day may be allocated for large revenue villages and half-a-day for small revenue villages. Revenue minister Anagani Satya Prasada said the Revenue Sadassus shall be completed in 45 days and redressal of the issues would take another 45 days till Nov 15. Regarding the issuing of new Pattadar pass books with the AP government logo, minister Satya Prasad said fresh PPBs will be issued to farmers after collecting back the earlier pass books.