Telangana’s Land Solution Is More Waiting
Revanth Reddy’s government has reduced the numbers, expanded the explanations and left landowners exactly where committees prefer them.
The Revanth Reddy government has discovered the ideal solution to Telangana’s land crisis: reduce the number on the slide, increase the number of explanations and leave the citizen’s property where it is. Section 22-A has kept private landowners from selling, registering or properly using their land. In the Assembly on September 16, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy promised a “permanent solution”. No immediate relief arrived. Permanent, in this administration, appears to mean a promise that can outlive the next review meeting.
The government’s arithmetic is impressive. Revanth Reddy said private patta land on the prohibited list had fallen from 7.91 lakh acres in 2020 to 3.73 lakh acres in 2026. The wider Part-B category, he said, had declined from about 21.93 lakh acres under the BRS government to roughly 17 lakh acres now. These are useful figures. They would be more useful if the people whose land remains trapped could sell it. A smaller locked door is still a locked door.
Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy apologised to property owners and blamed the previous BRS government. This is the Congress method distilled into one administrative gesture: accept that the problem is serious, establish that someone else created it and appoint time itself as the relief package. The government can now be both sorry and blameless, which is a remarkable achievement in a state where even land records have apparently learned coalition politics.
The timing is almost elegant. As the government celebrates 1,000 days and advertises more than 72,000 government appointments as evidence of transparent governance, landowners are being offered a committee-shaped future. The administration has explained the history, announced the intention and supplied the comparative figures. What it has not supplied is the one thing a person with unusable property can take to a bank, a buyer or a registration office: a functioning solution.
The land remains prohibited; the explanation is fully operational.
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