The State government has decided to initiate steps to redress the grievances raised by the tahsildars on the difficulties they are facing in the ambitious land record updation programme.
Senior officials of the Revenue Department reportedly assured the tahsildars that steps will be initiated to put in place user-friendly and easy to use software in a couple of days for facilitating easy operation of the portal so that data collected during the drive for updating land records is uploaded without lapses. Steps would be initiated to provide more than 10 options for the employees engaged in updating of the data in place of the existing four to ensure that data could be rechecked and uploaded easily.
The government is understood to have assured that the June 20 deadline for completion of the land record updation could be extended by few days to ensure that the data being uploaded is fool-proof and it would not result in any irritants for the proposed Dharani, an integrated portal for land transactions.
The action follows the complaints made by the tahsildars and other officials at the district-level about the numerous technical glitches they were encountering in uploading data.
They complained that there were problems relating to Aadhaar linkages of land records as the system was unable to generate reports relating to the data uploaded. There were instances of missing survey numbers which is making uploading of the data difficult while there was no provision for display of old data in the mobile-based application which had been deployed for updating the records.
“The system is generating notices even in case of lands with clean record. The application through which data was recorded during the drive has not been synchronised and this is posing further problems,” Telangana Tahsildars Association president V. Lachi Reddy said.
The association has voiced its concern over the lower-level officials being blamed for the delay in updating the data at a time when the problem was with the technology-related issues, including the software.
The association representatives called on senior officials, including the Revenue Department Special Chief Secretary Rajeshwar Tiwari, on Tuesday and submitted representation relating to the problems faced by them.