AP's Revenue Department to undergo overhaul
In a major overhaul exercise of the revenue department to be taken up soon, the state government is planning to scrap certificates such as nativity, residence and income certificates by keeping Aadhar as a single source of information of citizens.
The government is also exploring a possibility of abolishing title deeds and pattadar pass books, taking details available on Mee Bhoomi portal as authenticated information of a land owner.
In a review meeting held on Monday at the Secretariat, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, after several deliberations with the department over the last three months, directed the department to finish digitization of Field Measurement Book (FMB) records within 9 months. This, he said, will eventually help in integrating land records data with satellite maps along with details of extent of crop lands.
On the issue of caste certificates, the Chief Minister asked the department to update pending ones and for new ones, he suggested sending field personnel to collect data from individual houses and update them instantly on Mee Bhoomi portal through tablets. The field personnel including VROs, agriculture officers, anganwadi supervisors, ANMs and school headmasters will undergo training for this purpose.
In order to bring in accountability and transparency, and make Andhra Pradesh a model state in the country, the Chief Minister said that Electronic Total System (ETS) machines could be purchased to survey lands.
Further, the Chief Minister also suggested the department to have outsourced people as surveyors. He highlighted the need to strengthen VROs by increasing their accountability in updating crop particulars on Mee Bhoomi along with images of the crop and geo-tagging of the land parcels.
In an effort to make it a certificate-less governance, the government is mulling a pulse survey in August for preparation of socio-economic citizen data base. The Chief Minister asked the department to check whether mutations can be completed within 10 days and eventually introduce an auto mutation process.
Directing the department to fill the pending posts, the Chief Minister sanctioned Rs 30 crore for pending works.
News Posted: 16 June, 2015
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