Hyderabad: Nearly after 90 years, a comprehensive land survey will be taken up in Telangana. The digital survey is being taken up to end land disputes and also to have transparency in the land records. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced that the digital survey of farm lands would be taken up soon with land coordinates and asked the officials to float tenders for the same.
Official sources said the last survey was done in Telangana in 1930s during the Nizam’s rule. A town survey was done in Hyderabad in 1970s. Since the CM announced agriculture land survey, it is likely to be taken up in nine erstwhile districts of the state except in Hyderabad.
The revenue department has started gathering information how other states, such as neighbouring AP, Odisha, Rajasthan and Bihar, have done the land survey. According to the estimations of the survey department, at least Rs 600 crore to Rs 700 crore is required and it will take a minimum of two years to complete.
“We are working out the modalities for the land survey. The mode of survey, technology, cost factor and other details are being looked into. The government will finalise the modalities in a couple of days before calling for expression of interest from the firms,” L Shashidhar, survey, settlement and land survey commissioner, told TOI on Friday. He said the government may opt for hybrid technologies keeping the different terrain of the state in view.
Sources in the government said even in digital survey, technology will be a factor. AP had taken up a survey through drones to collect digital photographs of lands. Differential global positioning system (DGPS), electronic total station (ETS) and high resolution satellite images and lidar (light detection and ranging) survey are available.
Officials said the land survey is necessary as there is no match between the land registered and land in the field. “Digitisation and demarcation of government, private and forest land will help various agencies to identify and protect government and forest land,” a joint director of revenue department said.
The state government first proposed the land survey in 2017 after taking up the land records updation programme (LRUP). But, the survey could not be taken up as many land records were yet to be cleared, especially those in dispute, and because of lack of funds. Several village maps, field measurement books or tippons and sethwars, which are considered the original parent records which provide classification of the land, extent and pattadar names, are missing in the state.
Official sources said the last survey was done in Telangana in 1930s during the Nizam’s rule. A town survey was done in Hyderabad in 1970s. Since the CM announced agriculture land survey, it is likely to be taken up in nine erstwhile districts of the state except in Hyderabad.
The revenue department has started gathering information how other states, such as neighbouring AP, Odisha, Rajasthan and Bihar, have done the land survey. According to the estimations of the survey department, at least Rs 600 crore to Rs 700 crore is required and it will take a minimum of two years to complete.
“We are working out the modalities for the land survey. The mode of survey, technology, cost factor and other details are being looked into. The government will finalise the modalities in a couple of days before calling for expression of interest from the firms,” L Shashidhar, survey, settlement and land survey commissioner, told TOI on Friday. He said the government may opt for hybrid technologies keeping the different terrain of the state in view.
Sources in the government said even in digital survey, technology will be a factor. AP had taken up a survey through drones to collect digital photographs of lands. Differential global positioning system (DGPS), electronic total station (ETS) and high resolution satellite images and lidar (light detection and ranging) survey are available.
Officials said the land survey is necessary as there is no match between the land registered and land in the field. “Digitisation and demarcation of government, private and forest land will help various agencies to identify and protect government and forest land,” a joint director of revenue department said.
The state government first proposed the land survey in 2017 after taking up the land records updation programme (LRUP). But, the survey could not be taken up as many land records were yet to be cleared, especially those in dispute, and because of lack of funds. Several village maps, field measurement books or tippons and sethwars, which are considered the original parent records which provide classification of the land, extent and pattadar names, are missing in the state.
