Show your 22A homework
Harish Rao wants a white paper on every property the Congress government put on the Section 22A prohibited list since 7 December 2023. The ask is basic: count it, justify it, and fix the mistakes the government already admits exist.
The government has been asked to publish the count, reasons and corrections behind Section 22A additions.
BRS leader T. Harish Rao on 17 August demanded a white paper on all properties added to Telangana’s Section 22A prohibited list since 7 December 2023 — the start of the Congress government’s tenure. He put the charge on the table; now the numbers are the government’s to produce. (According to a report of his presser.)
The state already runs search portals for prohibited properties and even documents a known failure mode: when only part of a survey number was acquired but the whole number got flagged. The fix is routine — the Collector corrects the extent and splits the survey. If that is the clerical mistake the Congress government has been making at scale, it should be the easiest white paper in the world to write: list, reason, remedy.
Harish Rao alleged overbroad additions, ULC-cleared parcels resurfacing, and worse. Those specifics are his allegations; the public record that does exist points to a different, still damning fact: departments have a history of poor data sharing and slow reconciliation, and courts are still fielding petitions on delayed removals. The Registration Act’s Section 22A blocks sales unless the prohibition is lifted with an NOC — so bad data is not a nuisance; it freezes people’s transactions.
The Congress-run Revenue side has already blinked. Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy was reported acknowledging errors and promising corrections, and ordering reviews so refusals come with reasons, not rubber stamps. Good — put it on paper, put dates on the fixes, and publish the counts. A government that can prohibit a sale with one click can also count how many it did and why.
The white paper is the floor, not the reform. Telangana’s own portals say transparency exists; the Congress government now has to act like it believes its own website.