Key Highlights
- Terming it as a New Year gift, Anagani Satya Prasad, Minister for Revenue, Registration and Stamps, told the media at the Secretariat on Thursday that the government had taken this decision with the primary objective of safeguarding the rights of farmers and landowners, and providing long-pending relief to genuine titleholders.
- Private patta lands had been completely removed from the 22-A list, the Minister said, adding that officials were instructed to take suo motu action to delete such lands whenever applications were received.
- Lands allotted to serving and retired defence personnel, freedom fighters, and political victims had also been removed from the prohibited list, provided relevant documents were available, he said, adding that for defence personnel land allotments, recommendations made by the District Sainik Welfare Officer would be sufficient.
- Similarly, any one of the nearly eight types of documents, including 10(1) registers, adangals, SFA records, old assignment registers, DR files, Record of Holdings, registration documents, 8-A registers or DKT pattas, would be adequate for deletion from the 22-A list.
- Revenue officials had been strictly instructed not to harass landowners by demanding additional documentation, the Minister said.
