The data collected from purification of land records last year is going to hold key not only for the implementation of investment support scheme but also to all other schemes linked to farmers in future, Agriculture Production Commissioner C. Parathasarathi has said.
Stating that the main objective for conducting the exercise for purification of land records was to implement the investment support scheme, wherein the farmers are proposed to be given ₹4,000 per acre per agriculture season, Mr. Parthasarathi told Joint Collectors, Revenue Divisional Officers and District Agriculture Officers that issuance of new pattadar passbooks-cum-title deeds and extending investment support would be based on the land data being compiled by the Revenue Department.
Holding a video conference from the Secretariat on Tuesday, the Agriculture Production Commissioner said since the investment support would be given in the form of cheques, care has to be taken so that farmers' information in passbooks and cheques match. He told the district officers that the investment support scheme taken up by the Telangana Government for the first time in the country is being watched by the Centre, other States and policy makers. He stressed the need to compile error-free and factual information on mandals, villages, farmers' account numbers and extent of land holding by holding gram sabhas in villages as the date would hold key for several other needs in future. He stated that preparation of agriculture budget would also be based on the data. Mr. Parthasarathi told the Joint Collectors to involve the Agriculture Department officers from Agriculture Extension Officer level to District Agriculture Officer in the compilation of land data. Director of Land Administration V. Karuna stated that compilation of 93% land data was completed so far and the remaining database including rectification of mistakes, if any, would be completed by the month-end. Representatives of National Informatics Centre clarified the field level doubts raised on compilation of the data.
