Low profile I-Day in TS

State government is going to organize Independence Day celebrations without much fanfare and announcing new financial schemes this time unlike last year in the wake of state government’s poor financial position. No big arrangements were seen with regard to Independence Day celebrations.  

The focus is more on launching of ‘Grama Jyoti’ on August17 and officials are busy in making arrangements for Grama Jyoti. District officials are conducting orientation programme on Grama Jyoti for officials concerned, MPTC, ZPTC, MLAs and Ministers on August14.

It is learnt that, the state government is planning to give awards and appreciation letters to the officials including police worked for Godavari pushkaralu.

Government schemes will be on display during the Independence Day celebrations and bank loans will be distributed to the beneficiaries on the occasion.

Last year, state government has announced new schemes to various sections of the people and celebrated the event on grand scale even at the forts giving new look to the independence day celebrations for the first time in the districts.

Independence Day celebrations were observed at Nirmal fort by the officials for the first time last year but it is not sure whether the officials are going to observe the event at first this time too or not.

TS to regularise encroached lands

The state government which is reportedly facing financial crisis has intensified regularization of encroached government lands under GO: 59 eyeing on creation of revenue to fill its coffer.

The government has pinned a lot of hopes on revenue generation through regularization of encroached government lands under GO: 59 but has failed to generate revenue expected till now.        

It is said that state government is making serious efforts to increase its revenue from various sources to meet its requirements and allocations.

The applicants are paying remaining amount to regularize their lands under Government order: 59. Revenue officials are checking measurements of the lands of the house owners for which they applied for regularization.

All ready applicants have paid first installment for regularization of their lands. Revenue department will issue pattas soon to the lands after regularization..

B. Venkatesh of Shantinagar in Adilabad town said revenue officials marking rounds of  applicant’s houses who applied for regularization of land and asking them to pay the remaining amount to get regularized their encroached government land’.

He said ‘revenue officials offered five percent concession in the total amount for onetime payment of total amount’.

The state government has issued GO: 58 and 59 with regard to regularization of encroached government lands. The GO: 58 meant for regularization of encroached government land free of cost if it was bellow 125 square yards for the families of bellow poverty line (BPL).

Adilabad Tahsildar A. Subhash Chander said they were conducting an inquiry into the 454 applications they received for regularization of lands in Adilabad mandal rural and urban and added that they have formed eight teams with land surveyor and Deputy Tahsildars. He said pattas will be issued to the lands of eligible applicants after scrutiny.

The Adilabad mandal revenue officials have received above 3,900 applications seeking the regularization of the lands free of cost for BPL families and revenue officials claimed that they had issued pattas to the lands of BPL under land regularization as per the GO.