Telangana Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy has directed District Collectors to clear pending 22-A land applications on priority, placing unresolved cases under weekly review and escalation to a high-level committee. The decision affects applications handled by officials in Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Sangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri districts.
The direction was issued at a review meeting with District Collectors and District Registrars at the Secretariat in Hyderabad on Thursday. The minister asked Collectors, District Registrars and other officials to ensure that no application relating to 22-A land issues remained pending.
Officials have been instructed to review the progress of the applications every week. Cases that remain unresolved will be referred to a high-level committee headed by Revenue Secretary DS Lokesh Kumar, according to the report.
The 22-A applications covered by the review relate to several categories of land and property cases. These include properties covered by government orders GO 118 and GO 76, registration of properties with planning approvals despite their inclusion in the 22-A list, Urban Land Ceiling cases, patta lands awaiting conversion under the Non-Agricultural Land Assessment process, and implementation of GO 59.
The four districts named in the review are among Telangana’s most significant urban and peri-urban areas. Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Sangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri include areas where property registration, land-use conversion, planning permissions and development activity intersect with the state’s revenue administration. The government’s review therefore brings together land records and registration officials at district level rather than limiting the process to a single department.
The minister’s instructions place responsibility for clearing the backlog with District Collectors and District Registrars, while creating an escalation mechanism for cases that cannot be resolved at the district level. The weekly review process is intended to track progress across the four districts and identify applications requiring intervention by the Revenue Department’s senior committee.
The orders referenced in the review cover different administrative circumstances, including planning-approved properties appearing on the 22-A list and patta lands awaiting NALA conversion. The report did not provide the number of pending applications, district-wise case totals, a deadline for disposal or details of the committee’s operating procedure.
The next stage will be weekly monitoring by Collectors and District Registrars, followed by referral of unresolved matters to the committee headed by the Revenue Secretary. No separate timeline for completing the clearance process was announced in the report.
