Telangana has accelerated its land re-survey across 2,720 villages after Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy directed officials to speed up the process, verify boundaries and maintain transparent digital records. The exercise is intended to resolve long-standing land disputes and provide landowners with clearer legal rights and more precise property boundaries.
The minister issued the directions during a review meeting held through video conference. Officials were told to intensify work in villages where the survey is yet to be completed and ensure that the process remains accurate and transparent.
Telangana has 10,954 revenue villages. The first phase of the re-survey covers 2,720 villages, with 70 villages selected in each of the state’s 32 districts, excluding Hyderabad. Survey work has started in 1,000 villages and has been completed in 416, according to the details discussed at the review meeting.
The exercise is described as the first comprehensive land re-survey in the state after a long interval. Officials have been asked to examine existing revenue records and use Differential Global Positioning System equipment, rovers, Geographic Information Systems and QGIS to establish land boundaries more accurately.
The technology-led process will also focus on identifying and verifying discrepancies in boundaries, survey number divisions and recorded land extents. Officials were instructed to ensure that details such as land area, boundaries and survey numbers are entered accurately into technical systems and preserved digitally.
Land records and boundary measurements are central to the administration of property rights, particularly where older records contain inconsistencies or where survey numbers and land extents have changed over time. The government has linked the re-survey to efforts to address disputes that have remained unresolved under existing records.
The process will include an opportunity for affected landowners to review the findings. After the survey is completed in an area, officials must issue notices to landowners under the prescribed regulations. The notices will allow them to verify their land details and submit objections or suggestions within a specified timeframe.
The review meeting did not provide a revised completion deadline for the first-phase survey. Officials were directed to accelerate work in the remaining villages and meet the targets set for the exercise.
