Telangana | Setting the land document straight

For over a century, Bhutharaju Jangaih’s forefathers had cultivated two acres of inam land that the erstwhile jagirdars had gifted his ancestors. In 2020, the income divisional officer had issued the 56-year-old Jangaih an Occupation Rights Certificates (ORC) for over one-tenth of an acre of that land in Yacharam village in Telangana’s Ranga Reddy district. However the Dharani portal—launched by the earlier Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) authorities the identical 12 months—had left him in limbo, for it had no provision to challenge a patta (land title proper with passbook) to somebody with an ORC. Now, with the passage of the Telangana Bhu Bharati (Document of Rights in Land) Invoice, 2024, Jangaih—and 1000’s like him throughout 12 occupancy classes—are hopeful of lastly getting their possession rights.