Unlawful recording of leased land to invite action: Rev dept

IN a significant move, the Odisha government has warned action against revenue officials for their alleged involvement in 'wrong' recording of 'swatwa' (property rights) of leaseout government land.

- HEMANT KUMAR ROUT @ Bhubaneswar

In a guarded letter to all districts, additional chief secretary of Revenue and Disaster Management department DK Singh has asked to examine the status of the land leased out to individuals and organisations on various purposes and rectify as per law.

The direction came after the government noticed that in some cases, lease of government land sanctioned in favour of various organisations, industrial and commercial concerns and public sector undertakings, corporations, local authorities and entrepreneurs for non-agricultural, commercial and industrial purposes have been wrongly and illegally recorded under 'sthitiban' (homestead land) status in the record-of-rights.