22A list balloons; clarity doesn’t
A report says 76,000 acres in Hanamkonda–Jangaon are on the prohibited list. The paperwork that would prove it is still missing; the roadblock for buyers and sellers is not.
Buyers and sellers face registration checks while the underlying 22-A paperwork remains difficult to verify.
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A published report claims roughly 76,000 acres in Hanamkonda and Jangaon are now on the Section 22-A prohibited-properties list — 40,000 acres in Hanamkonda and 36,000 in Jangaon — with registrations said to have stalled since 29 October 2025. Those figures rest on that report alone; no gazette, collector order or survey-wise list has been produced to match them.
What is on record: the Telangana High Court has pressed the state to keep a procedurally sound 22-A list and communicate it to registration officials — with gazette notification required for clause (1)(e) properties, and official communication for (a)–(d). The state also issued a fresh 22-A notification on 12 November 2025, per a High Court order this April. Buyers and sellers now face a simple gate: under G.O. Ms. No. 39 (14 April 2025), sub-registrars must verify a property is not in the 22-A list before registering it.
Bhu Bharati publishes a prohibited-properties search and a grievance route for wrongly tagged survey numbers — and it warns that entire survey numbers sometimes get flagged as “acquired” even when only a slice was taken. That explains how private plots can end up frozen in the shadow of a larger entry; it does not confirm that is what happened across Hanamkonda or Jangaon.
The wider mess did not start yesterday. In past cases the High Court has struck down overreach — including a district-level “22-A” notification issued without jurisdiction — and noted the government’s plan (September 2025) to compile a consolidated list covering government, Endowments and Waqf lands. The committee set up to sort grievances exists in court records; its rulebook, less so in public view.
For ordinary buyers, the effect is the same: if your survey number sits on the list, your deed sits on hold until someone cleans the entry up. The Congress-run state owes people the documents and the corrections, not just a longer queue on the portal.