Orders Issued For Distribution Of 3 Acre Land To SCs

Telangana government on Saturday issued orders introducing Land Purchase Scheme to purchase and assign 3 acres of agriculture land to landless Dalit women dependent on agriculture. The government has already taken a decision to launch the scheme from August 15. According to the orders issued by Principal Secretary (SC Development) T. Radha, the focus for the annual action plan under SCSP for 2014-15 would land purchase for landless poor SC households.

Three acres of land shall be given to the SC landless women members. The poorest of the poor shall be covered preferably in first phase and other poor beneficiaries having smaller piece of land shall be provided with balance extent of land to make them owners of three acres in the next phases.

District collectors will identify landless Scheduled Castes households by verifying all the land records and identify the poorest of the poor among them as per the SERP survey data which will be validated and finalized. The woman of the SC household shall be given patta by the district administration for the above scheme. The entire cost of registration fee, stamp duty and other incidental expenses shall be borne by the government.

A comprehensive package shall be envisaged which shall include providing irrigation facilities, drip facilities, seed,  fertilizers, pesticides, ploughing, micro irrigation, energisation, pumpsets etc., for one crop a year in addition to providing funds for land development, preparation of nursery and agricultural inputs. The amount for meeting the cost of cultivation etc., shall be directly transferred into the account of the beneficiary. The detailed guidelines & procedures on implementation of Land Purchase Scheme will be issued separately as the initial phase of purchasing land progresses.