Andhra Pradesh CM launches denotification of dotted lands
It will provide full rights to farmers owning 2.06 lakh acres of dotted lands worth Rs 20,000 crore
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Kavali: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy formally launched the programme of denotifying the ‘dotted lands’ from the prohibited list thereby benefiting 97,471 farmer families across the State.
Addressing a public meeting here on Friday after launching the programme, he said it will provide full rights to farmers owning 2,06,171 acres of dotted lands worth Rs 20,000 crore.
He said the famers will now be able to sell and pledge these lands for their financial needs besides enjoying the other normal rights as land owners. The initiative will permanently remove the dotted lands from the prohibited list of lands and restore full rights on farmers owning them, he said.
Farmers suffered a lot as they were disallowed from selling or pledging these lands during the TDP rule which included them in the Section 22 A (1)(e) in 2016. The government’s initiative has permanently ended the dotted lands problems created during the British era wherein the then government put dots in the Pattadar column to end the confusion on their status as either government or private lands, he added.
Reddy said the pro-farmer government has been implementing several programmes for the welfare of farmers. Government has distributed three lakh acres as RoFR pattas to 1. 28 lakh tribal families by allotting two acres each, besides removing 35,000 of conditional patta lands from the list of prohibited lands thereby benefiting 22,000 farmer families and distributing 31 lakh house site pattas to women, he added.
Permanently ending the land litigations across the State, the government has also taken up resurvey of lands after 100 years by implementing the YSR Jagananna Saswatha Bhu Hakku and Bhu Raksha, said the Chief Minister, adding that the government has provided 7,92,238 permanent title deeds to farmers in 2,000 villages in the first phase. The second phase of the programme will be taken from next month, he said.
Local MLA R Pratap Reddy and beneficiaries of the dotted lands programme also spoke.
The initiative will permanently remove the dotted lands from the prohibited list of lands and restore full rights on farmers owning them. Farmers suffered a lot as they were disallowed from selling or pledging these lands during the TDP rule which included them in the Section 22 A (1)(e) in 2016. The government’s initiative has permanently ended the dotted lands problems created during the British era
– AP Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy
