TIRUPATI: State authorities has launched an city land and property resurvey in Tirupati to place an finish to long-pending land disputes and curb the menace of encroachments and double registration of properties within the temple metropolis.

The federal government had already taken up resurvey of lands and properties in rural areas throughout the state as a part of Jagananna Bhu Hakku – Bhu Raksha. The federal government has chosen Tirupati to execute the resurvey scheme in city areas on a pilot foundation.

As a part of the pilot venture, ward secretariat officers, in collaboration with city planning division of the Municipal Company of Tirupati (MCT) and income division, have begun resurveying lands and properties within the first and fourth divisions of the town. For the aim, the primary division has been categorised into three sectors and the fourth into two sectors.

MCT commissioner Anupama Anjali mentioned land resurvey is meant to offer a everlasting and indeniable title doc to homeowners of their land / property holdings. Such documentation will finish land disputes and simplify land transaction procedures. Modern know-how involving rovers, automotive networks and drones is getting used to establish each property precisely with its longitude and latitude.

The commissioner mentioned built-in re-survey will assist authorities put together metropolis survey map, resurvey land register, 1B register, and everlasting land title deeds in a digital format.

Out of 27.22 sq km of municipal space, authorities properties are distributed over 1,810 acres and open websites in 18 acres. As well as, there are 357 tri-junctions and seven,150 bi-junctions inside the city limits.

Anupama mentioned each landowner might be issued discover below part 9(2) of Survey and Boundaries Act. “If the property proprietor has any objection, s/he could file an enchantment with the survey staff. A cell Justice of the Peace will resolve the appeals. After completion of re-survey, all particulars of properties might be made out there in digital format on the ward secretariats involved. A everlasting title deed might be issued to each property proprietor,” the commissioner added.

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