Revenue Minister Hails Bhu Bharati As Historic Milestone

HYDERABAD: Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Monday said the state government was rebuilding the revenue administration system that had collapsed during the previous BRS regime, with the Bhu Bharati initiative emerging as a new direction for land governance. Reviewing the implementation of the landmark Bhu Bharati Act at the Secretariat ahead of its first anniversary on April 14, the minister described the reform as a historic milestone in Telangana’s administrative history. He said the occasion marked not just the completion of one year of a law, but the beginning of a new era in safeguarding land rights. The Act, introduced on the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar last year, aims to ensure transparency, accountability and faster delivery of revenue services to citizens. Recalling the situation prior to the enactment of the law, the minister said that the 2020 ROR Act and the Dharani portal introduced by the previous BRS government had caused severe hardships to lakhs of people, forcing even rightful landowners to run from pillar to post to establish ownership. With a resolve to completely overhaul that system, the government replaced it with the integrated Bhu Bharati platform. Government integrated revenue, survey, and stamps and registration departments under one umbrella with technical support from the National Informatics Centre, and launched a pilot of the integrated portal in five mandals across five districts from April 2. Based on feedback, it will be expanded to one mandal per district next month. Highlighting its impact, Srinivas Reddy said the portal has recorded over 5.2 crore visits within a year, with around 67 lakh users logging in. The minister said each survey number will be assigned a unique ‘Bhudhaar’ number to ensure permanent resolution of land disputes. He noted that of the 378 villages without maps since the Nizam era, re-survey has been completed in five, while work is ongoing in the remaining villages using advanced rover-based technology. The state plans to take up surveys in 70 villages per district in phases, clearly demarcating boundaries and assigning Bhudhaar numbers. In A Year: Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said 3.8 lakh passbooks had been issued in a year under the new Bhu Bharati Act. Portal has recorded over 5.2 crore visits within a year, with around 67 lakh users logging in. Unique ‘Bhudhaar’ number to ensure permanent resolution of land disputes. Survey holdings increased from around 40 lakhs in 1948 to 2.29 crore now, all of them to get Bhudhaar numbers 5,520 licensed surveyors have been trained and deployed, with four to six per mandal. GPOs appointed by clustering 10,984 revenue villages. Outdated tools such as chains and measuring tapes removed Government conducting surveys using modern technologies, 411 rovers procured so far, 400 more on the way.



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