YS Jagan launches de-notification of dotted lands in AP; 97,471 farmer families to benefit

KAVALI: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday formally launched the programme for de-notifying the ‘dotted lands’ from the prohibited list thereby benefiting 97, 471 farmer families across the State.

Addressing a public meeting here after launching the programme, the Chief Minister said that it would provide full rights to farmers owning 2,06,171 acres of dotted lands worth Rs 20,000 crores. He said that the farmers would now be able to sell and pledge these lands for their financial needs besides enjoying other normal rights as land owners. The initiative would permanently remove the dotted lands from the prohibited list of lands and restore full rights to farmers owning them, he said.

Farmers suffered a lot as they had been denied the right to sell or pledge these lands during the TDP rule which included them in 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, the Chief Minister added.

YS Jagan further said that the pro-farmer government had been implementing several programmes for the welfare of farmers. The government has distributed three lakh acres as RoFR pattas to 1.28 lakh tribal families by allotting two acres each. This is besides removal of 35,000 of conditional patta lands from the list of prohibited lands thereby benefiting 22,000 farmer families and distribution of 31 lakh house site pattas to women, he added.

YS Jagan said that, to permanently end the land litigations across the state, the government had also taken up resurvey of lands almost after 100 years by implementing the YSR Jagananna Saswatha Bhu Hakku and Bhu Raksha. He further said that the government had 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 up from next month, he said.

Investing heavily on education to develop human resources

The Chief Minister said that the Government had been investing huge amounts on education with a view to developing human resources and this would help the State become torch-bearer for the entire country. “In the next 15 years, all the youth including those becoming vehicle drivers would be able to speak fluently in English,” he said.

“The pro-farmer government has been bringing in revolutionary changes in the agricultural sector also by introducing RBKs to help the farmers at every stage from sowing seeds to selling their agricultural produce for profitable prices, besides giving input subsidy, supplying free electricity and providing MSP for even non-MSP agricultural produce. The RBKs are purchasing the soaked and colored paddy from the farmers,” he said.

The Chief Minister sanctioned Rs 35 crores for transforming the Kavali tank into balancing reservoir, Rs 20 crore for building the Sangam Barrage and Kavali link canal, Rs 15 crore for widening the Kavali Trunk Road and Rs 80 crore for providing infrastructure to Indiramma Colony 16th ward on par with Jagananna colony.

MLA R Pratap Reddy and beneficiaries of the dotted lands programme also addressed the public meeting.