22-A mess: CM promises fix, records agree
At Kukatpally, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said buyers caught in Section 22-A blocks won’t “lose their land” and promised directions to enable registrations. The government’s own land portal admits record-entry errors exist — and gives a route to correct them.
The portal records the error; correcting it still requires an official decision.
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Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy told a Kukatpally meeting on 13 August that buyers whose properties landed in the Section 22-A prohibited list “will not lose their own land”, and that he would speak to officials to enable registrations, according to a report of the event published the next day. The report also attributes to him an explanation many buyers have heard the hard way: entire survey numbers getting blocked when only a small slice is under dispute, allegedly on court directions. (Source: report; no official transcript was available.)
What is on record, in black and white, is the state’s own system conceding this happens. The Bhu Bharati portal says “due to mistake in entries” an entire survey number is sometimes marked as acquired even when “a small extent” was actually taken, and it spells out a grievance process to split the survey number, correct the extent and update the e-passbook. It also carries a separate workflow to contest inclusion in the prohibited-properties list. That is the difference between spin and a fix: a screen where a pattadar can upload documents, and a Collector who has to decide.
Section 22-A itself is not the villain; misapplication is. The legal bar on registering Waqf and other protected categories stands on government orders. The live question for Hyderabad’s buyers is whether their flat or plot was correctly flagged — and if not, how fast the state machinery clears the block it entered. The Chief Minister has made a promise; the database already admits the problem. Now the Revenue and Registration machinery has to move faster than a rumour mill.