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‘Land grabbing – 5000 to 6000 acres of land under encroachment’, says Ayyanna Patrudu

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Visakhapatnam


The State government has decided to conduct a public hearing on June 15 over serious allegations of tampering of land records by officials to help the land grabbers in the city.

Deputy Chief Minister K.E.Krishna Murty will be present at the hearing. He said in Vijayawada that a team of senior officials from the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration and the revenue department would visit the city to verify the records. The team would conduct the hearing at the District Collectorate’s office at 11am. The affected persons can lodge their complaints with supporting documents.

There are allegations that officials had fudged the records on the pretext that they were missing after the Hudhud cyclone. The farmers stages protest demanding an inquiry.

R&B Minister Ch.Ayyanna Patrudu expressing concern over the incidents of fraud involving valuable land and encroachment in and around the city wanted a cell to be formed with an IAS officer to go into the complaints. At a press conference, he said that 5000 to 6000 acres of land were under encroachment. If any IAS officer was put on the job, he would receive complaints from people and verify them, he said.

District Collector Pravin Kumar said that large scale tampering of land records had occurred with officials connivance in the Visakhapatnam rural mandal creating ground for litigation.