Hyderabad: Orders are out—wrap it up, no dragging. Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Monday told collectors from four districts to speed things up in mandals where the Bhu Bharati Act is on trial.
In a video meet with the collectors of Mulugu, Kamareddy, Khammam, and Narayanpet, the minister stressed fast, detailed scrutiny of applications coming in from Maddir, Lingampet, Venkatapur, and Nelakondapalli mandals. These are the pilot zones for the new land reform law. Every issue flagged there? Needs resolving—fast and clean.
The Bhu Bharati Act, pushed through under CM A. Revanth Reddy’s government, is supposed to make land problems vanish without farmers running around courts. Everything’s to happen right inside the revenue office. No bribes, no middlemen. Officers are expected to go to the people directly, solve things without costing them a rupee.
Any application that gets rejected must go through deep verification, the minister insisted. No brushing off. He also said all applications must go online immediately—starting today, tehsildars now have access to online registration tools.
Principal Secretary Naveen Mittal, who joined the session, was told to deploy skilled personnel from other regions if necessary—especially to handle the pile of cases and speed up resolutions before the month ends.
On the side, the minister also brought up the Indiramma housing files. Said district in-charge ministers should be sent updated beneficiary lists regularly and asked to give clear approvals fast. House construction work, he added, shouldn’t be sitting idle either—it needs to start without delay.
Makrand, director of the CCLA project, also attended.
