WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE 1. State Government should take immediate steps to distribute all the available lands including government, ceiling surplus, bhoodan and un-utilised acquired lands. 2. State Government should allot funds to Women Self Help Groups to purchase lands for all the poorest women members in their groups. 3. Government should allot 4 guntas of land to each poor landless and homeless family to build a shelter and take up supplementary livelihood activities such as backyard poultry, goat-rearing, horticulture and vegetable cultivation. 4. Government of India has already committed funds to states for purchasing homestead land for the poor under Indira AwasYojana (IAY). State Government Should request funds from GoI. 5. Extend the date for receiving application for regularization of sadabainamas and issue patta. Further, Government should exempt the regularization fee for at least SCs and STs. 6. Carryout mutations in land records and issue patta to all who have inherited land. 7. Settle all the inam lands 8. Settle forest revenue boundary disputes and issue patta under revenue laws or title under the Forest Rights Act to the poor and tribal who are in cultivation of those lands. 9. Issue titles to tribal and other Traditional Forest Dwellers under Forest Rights Act. 10. The State Government should take immediate steps to update all the land records and make them accessible to all at low or no charge. 11. Government should regularly take up Azmoishi and Zamabandi. 12. The State Government should take urgent steps to re-survey all agricultural lands with the involvement of local people, using up-to-date and cost effective technology. 13. The State Government should recruit sufficient number of revenue staff at all levels, build their capacities and make them accountable on land matters. 14. Appoint one Village Revenue Officers (VRO) to each revenue village and ensure that VRO stays in the village where he or she is appointed. 15. Provide necessary budgetary support to the revenue department. 16. Enact Telangana Land Revenue Code which can be a single law governing land administration. 17. Establish Telangana Land Academy to train the revenue functionaries of the state. 18. The State Government should create community-based Paralegal programme for providing facilitation support to the poor in getting their land problems resolved. A Land Rights and Legal Assistance Centre should be established at every Revenue Divisional Headquarter under the aegis of DRDAs to provide the needed assistance to the poor in getting their land problems resolved and also to educate people on land rights. 19. Government of India has already agreed to provide for all the necessary cost through National Rural Livelihood Mission. State Government should take immediate steps to request funding from GoI. 20. The State Government should strictly implement the laws prohibiting land alienations and restore the land to the original owner/beneficiary. 21. Government should implement the Girglani report on Scheduled Areas in Telangana. 22. Government should take measures to prevent distress sales. 23. The State Government should ensure that all the tenant farmers gets the Loan Eligibility Cards and receive crop loans and other benefits due to them as farmers.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:20:38 +0000