Hyderabad, Jun 2 : Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has decided to conduct digital survey of agriculture lands in the State.
As part of it, initially, the Chief Minister said a pilot digital survey should be conducted from June 11.

For this, he has instructed Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to select 27 villages all over the State and of which, three villages should be from Gajwel Assembly Constituency. The rest 24 should be from the 24 districts in the State.

The Chief Minister held a review meeting Today at Pragathi Bhavan on digital survey issue with representatives from the survey agencies, an official release here said on Wednesday.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said, “We have brought in Dharani Portal only to protect the land rights of the poor. With an aim to make Telangana state, a land disputes-free state, the state government is conducting the digital survey of the agricultural lands.

The government’s aim is to conduct digital survey of agriculture lands in the state, fix the coordinates and there by provide total security and protection to the pattadars on a permanent basis.
The Chief Minister clearly instructed the survey agencies to conduct the digital survey efficiently as
it was part of the government aim to provide protection to people’s right on land and also understand the good intention of the government behind it. He also advised them not to view this assignment from a commercial point alone but treat this as a social service being rendered to the farmers.
The Chief Minister said that initially, the pilot survey should be done in the villages where there are no land disputes. Later in the villages where there are govt lands and forest department lands. In other words, the survey should be conducted in a mixed bunch of villages where there are no disputes and where there are disputes and get the field level experience on the matter.

After this, the Chief Minister wanted total guidelines on the Digital Survey should be prepared for the total survey in the state.

He wanted the survey of the agricultural lands should be taken up first and later the urban lands.(UNI)