Karimnagar, Telangana: The new Bhu Bharati Act aims to end long-standing land disputes and make life easier for farmers, said BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar during awareness meetings held in Saidapur and Chigurumamidi on Tuesday.
He explained that this law will enforce the updated Record of Rights (RoR) Act in a fair and transparent way. It will also improve the rural revenue system, giving more power and clarity to local administration.
Prabhakar pointed out that farmers have suffered under the previous Dharani land registration system. Many couldn’t sell their own lands, and some even resorted to confronting revenue officers out of frustration. He blamed the earlier government for misusing the system, claiming that land was illegally transferred to officials overnight.
He added that people who left the area decades ago still appear in land records, causing problems for current landowners. The Bhu Bharati Act, which comes into effect on June 2, is designed to fix these issues permanently.
The Minister urged the public to report any land grabbing incidents. He said such lands would be recovered and used for public purposes.
District Collector Pamela Satpathy noted that the new law gives more authority and responsibility to local officials. The system now allows village-level administration to handle issues directly. In just the past six months, over 9,000 land disputes in the district have been resolved by empowering Tahsildars and Revenue Divisional Officers (RDOs).
Several key officials joined the awareness event, including Additional Collector Praful Desai, RTOs Maheshwar and Ramesh Babu, Cooperative Society Chairman Kotha Tirupati Reddy, AMC Chairman Sudhakar, DCO Ramanujacharya, DAO Bhagyalakshmi, and Tahsildars Ramesh and Manjula, along with MPDO Yadagiri.
The Bhu Bharati Act is seen as a major step towards restoring trust in the land governance system and giving farmers control over their property once again.
