22A list has numbers. The government owes records.
A report puts the figures at 4.5 lakh acres in Nirmal and 2 lakh in Kumram Bheem Asifabad. Telangana’s official portal confirms the records problem, not those totals.
The government has acknowledged errors in 22A records but has not published a district-wise audit of the reported acreage.
The 22A controversy in Telangana’s erstwhile Adilabad region now has dramatic acreage figures and, so far, no public government record showing how they were calculated. A report attributed claims to unnamed officials that 4.5 lakh acres were listed in Nirmal and 2 lakh acres in Kumram Bheem Asifabad. It also reported 6,000 acres inside one survey number and thousands of house sites among the entries. Those figures remain unverified.
What is established is the underlying problem. Telangana’s Bhu Bharati portal says an entire survey number can be wrongly classified even when only a small portion is affected, preventing transactions or new passbooks. It provides a correction route through the Collector. Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has acknowledged errors in 22A records, apologised for the hardship and announced a review. The government has also said eligible cases should be examined individually rather than rejected automatically.
That is useful, but it is not a district-wise audit. The Revenue Department and the Congress government must publish the survey numbers, categories, dates and actual affected extents. Until then, the headline has plenty of acres and rather fewer records.