Telangana Tahsildars Association (TGTA) has allayed apprehensions about the reported abolition of Revenue Department and its merger into other departments.
TGTA founder-president and Deputy Collectors Association president V. Latchi Reddy and TGTA president K. Gautam Kumar said here on Wednesday that the reports doing rounds that the Revenue Department would be wound up was only a misconception.
Meeting
Speaking at the roundtable meeting at the TGTA central office attended by representatives of various revenue employees associations, they condemned the reports being circulated in a section of the media and social media about the abolition of Revenue Department.
State government never said or issued any statement to that effect or merging it with other departments.
The revenue employees should not feel insecure or agitated about it as there is no truth in it, they said.
The government, however, is making efforts to bring a new Revenue Act and “we welcome it”, they asserted. The new Act should be in such a way that it would strengthen the department further.
They reminded the members that they had been demanding the government to bring in reforms in the Revenue Department for its effective and efficient functioning.
Recalling that the Revenue Department employees worked without rest for one-and-a-half years under the land revenue records updation programme, they said in some areas, because of certain issues, people formed a negative perception about the revenue employees.
It should be the responsibility of the revenue employees themselves to come forward and clear the misconceptions, they said.
They called upon the revenue employees to work with accountability and solve the issues pending under the land record updation programme and declared villages as free of land disputes.
Revenue officers association president Ravi Naik, general secretary Chinna Raju, Village Revenue Assistants Association president Eshwar, secretary Ramulu and others participated in the meeting.
‘Creating confusion’
Meanwhile, the Telangana State Retired Revenue Employees Welfare Association here in a statement decried the confusion being created by the government in the minds of people about the Revenue Department and giving rise to a sense of insecurity among revenue employees.
Association president K. Lakshmaiah and general secretary P. Jayaprakash Rao said it is not proper for every government that comes in to change revenue system as per its whims and fancies. It was first done by Telugu Desam government and now again, they said.