22-A relief arrives with a committee-shaped gate
Telangana has opened a conditional route to register eligible houses, flats and plots caught in the Section 22-A prohibited list. The paperwork, naturally, is still the main character.
Eligible properties now have a route through the prohibited list, subject to committee scrutiny.
Telangana has opened a conditional route for registering houses, flats and open plots listed under Section 22-A, provided they carry valid layout, building or apartment permissions from bodies such as GHMC, HMDA, DTCP, municipalities or other local authorities. The move follows Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s September 16 Assembly assurance on a fast-track solution. The promise has now acquired a committee.
Applicants will have to submit link documents for transactions made after the required permissions were obtained. District-level committees headed by Collectors are expected to scrutinise cases, with officials from the revenue, registration and local-body machinery involved. A separate high-level committee, created under G.O. Ms. No. 564, is headed by Chief Commissioner of Land Administration D.S. Lokesh Kumar.
This is not a blanket clearance of every property on the prohibited list. Section 22-A also covers forest, government, assigned, endowment and Wakf land, apart from disputed properties. The government order setting out the full process has not been publicly located in the material reviewed, and the reported estimate of 1.41 lakh potentially eligible properties remains unconfirmed official data. For now, Telangana’s buyers have a route forward — and another round of scrutiny standing in it.