The Telangana government on September 7, 2020, declared a holiday for land registrations in a move towards enacting the New Revenue Act to revamp the revenue system and abolish the village revenue officer (VRO) system under the Registration Act, 1908. The new act will provide quality, transparency, and corruption-free land-related services to citizens, including registration of property documents. In this regard, the chief secretary of the state directed district collectors to instruct VROs to handover all the records, including original, photostat copies, online copies, printed, and handwritten copies available with them, to the tahsildars.
Earlier the records were to be maintained at mandal level under the personal custody of the tahsildars. The government will considerably restrict the power of tahsildars at the mandal level. The government has also decided to scrap the revenue courts, which will be replaced by new revenue tribunals, headed by a retired judge. Retired revenue officers will be part of the tribunal.
However, registration of will deeds, administration of marriages, and franking services will continue.
Courtesy: Deccan Chronicle, Times of India