22A mess isn’t an ‘if’ — it’s on record
BRS wants a judicial probe. The Congress government says it’s fixing ‘errors’. The documents say the problem exists. Publish the list, or stop calling it hype.
The state’s 22A records include both disputed entries and corrections; the demand is to publish the complete trail.
Harish Rao’s charge is blunt: the Congress government has turned 22A into a racket and must face a judicial probe, a white paper and a full public list. Those are demands, and they’re attributed — but here’s the part that isn’t up for debate: Telangana’s own records show the 22A machine has trapped genuine owners and needed fixing.
Start with the state’s portal. Telangana runs an official Prohibited Lands search through Bhu Bharati, tied to Registration’s CARD system — this is not a ‘political label’, it’s the state’s machinery. The High Court has already dealt with a landowner whose 1.38 acres in Nagarkurnool were put on the prohibited list and later vanished from it; the case was closed once the portal no longer showed the entry. That is a paper trail, not a slogan.
And the Congress government has admitted the screw-ups. The Revenue Minister publicly cited Survey No. 403 — 1,288 acres dumped wholesale into 22A when only two plots had an issue — before claiming it was rectified. He’s also ordered a review: upload GOs and approvals, stop ‘mechanical’ rejections, route 22A cases to Collectors. The CAG had warned earlier about gaps and poor reconciliation in prohibited-properties data; this did not fall from the sky in August.
What BRS is pushing now — a sitting-judge inquiry, a full list, website restrictions lifted, Assembly debate — is the minimum transparency test. The Minister said the government would publish additions after December 7, 2023. Where is that file? The Chief Minister offered reassurances and sub-numbering to fix survey-wise blocks. Good. Show the list, district-wise and downloadable, so Telangana can count the damage and the corrections.
A live grievance committee exists under G.O.Ms.No.98 (Aug 23, 2025). Use it, publish its disposal stats and every addition/removal since December 7. Until then, the Congress government in Telangana can call it ‘blown out of proportion’ all it likes; the court order and its own minister’s example have already proportioned it.