TG tables 'Bhu Bharati' Bill to replace Dharani

FULFILLING one of its key pre-poll promises, the Congress government on Wednesday introduced The Telangana Bhu Bharati (Record of Rights in Land) Bill, 2024, proposing to replace the Telangana Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 2020.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Hyderabad

The Bill proposes to rename Dharani portal with "RoR portal or Bhu Bharati". In the run-up to the 2023 Assembly elections, the Congress had vowed to bring reforms in land legislation and "throw Dharani", the land records management system, into the Bay of Bengal.

In the Bill, the state government has proposed many land reforms, learning from the shortcomings of the existing law.

The Bill has provisions to establish tribunals, appellate and revisional authority. It also has provisions for the "occupants" column, which was removed by the previous government, resulting in chaos. The Bill also has provisions for village level revenue officers and manually storing the revenue records. The Bill also empowers revenue mandal, district officers – MROs and RDOs – to address the grievances.