Land Regularisation Scheme: Applicants forced to roam around offices in Telangana’s Adilabad

The applicants are swarming help desks at the municipalities to find out the status of their applications filed in 2020 and clarify their doubts

Adilabad: Applicants are forced to roam around the offices of municipalities and other departments in order to pay the fee for regularisation of house sites under the Land Regularisation Scheme (LRS). The government had announced the scheme by offering a rebate of 25 per cent on the fee with a deadline of March 31.

An online based system was created helping the applicants to track status of their applications. The applicants, however, are swarming help desks at the municipalities to find out the status of their applications filed in 2020 and clarify their doubts. They are spending at least three days completing these tasks.

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The applicants are required to visit the offices of municipal, revenue and irrigation departments, located in different parts of the town in Adilabad, Mancherial and other civic bodies, to know the nature and classification of the land. They are allowed to pay a fee only if officials of these departments give their nod to the application by conducting field visits and verifying records.

Similarly, the applicants are needed to upload documents of lands by visiting Mee Seva centres. They are reportedly being fleeced by Mee-Seva centres who charge anywhere between Rs 150 and Rs 200 to take up the job. They urged the officials to take steps to speed up the process and display a chart of prices at the centres to curb the exploitation.

Town Planning officials said 709 applications were processed as against 14,472 eligible applicants in Adilabad town, fetching an income of Rs 1.88 crore to the government till March 20. As many as 22,369 people applied for LRS in 2020 by paying a fee of Rs 1,000 each. They stated that the process gained momentum since the last couple of days.

In Mancherial town, around 300 applications were cleared till now when compared to the total applications, 14,692. The officials stated that steps were being taken to expedite clearance of the applications and to address grievances of the applicants. They attributed the glitches in the server of the LRS to delay in executing the process of regularising the house sites.