22‑A mess: fix promised, receipts pending
Telangana’s prohibited‑properties list has errors the government now says it will correct. The legal basis exists, the portal exists — the apology and numbers are, for now, one report’s account. The BJP‑led Centre and its admirers can sit this one out: Section 22‑A is state law, and cleaning our own records is our job — which means publishing them, not just saying sorry.
The state has promised corrections to the Section 22-A list; the records are still awaited.
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Telangana’s prohibited‑properties regime under Section 22‑A is real law with real bite: certain lands cannot be registered, and the Registration and Stamps Department runs a public list for it. The High Court has reproduced the categories in black and white. The state even has a grievance route on Bhu Bharati for owners who say their land was listed by mistake. Those are facts on the record.
What is new — and not yet in an official note — is a report that Revenue (Registration and Stamps) Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy reviewed the 22‑A mess and apologised for private lands being caught in it, promising removals “soon” and blaming officials for not uploading past orders. The report cites district hotspots and thousands of affected parcels. These specifics are the minister’s reported claims, not published government data.
The government itself already acknowledged, in February, that poor coordination between Revenue and Registration let prohibited‑list land slip through or be mis‑flagged, and said legal changes were recommended to fix portal errors. That admission stands. What’s missing today is the basic accountability kit: the list version reviewed, the district‑wise count wrongly listed, the correction orders and dates, and which cases qualify for “conditional registration”.
Owners can currently file 22‑A grievances via Bhu Bharati, and district sites point to the prohibited‑properties lookup — but the correction timeline, the officer responsible and the audit of what went wrong are not posted. Until the numbers are on a government page or in a court filing, the apology is a claim; the fix is a promise; and both need documents to match the talk. Telangana can tidy its own roll without lectures from Delhi — and it can do it on the record.