The undisposed 2 lakh applications under Form 50, 53 and 94C will be processed within next 6 months, land will be granted. Extension of 3 months to those who have constructed houses in Revenue Land, without sanction, to submit application The Minister said depending on the availability and suitability land will be granted.
The undisposed applications under Form 50, 53 and 94C, numbering 2 lakh, will be scrutinised and disposed within 6 months, granting land to the eligible, assured Revenue Minister Kagodu Thimmappa.
He was speaking at the Hello Minister, a live phone in programme at Suvarna Channel, jointly organised by Kannada Prabha and Suvarna Channel.
Land has to be sanctioned and title deeds given to all those who submitted Form 50, 53. From the total number of applications received since 1990s, around 2.5 lakh applications were processed in the past 6 months. Around 2 lakh applications are pending. All hurdles with regard to processing them would be resolved and in the next 6 months the applicants would be granted lands, he said.
He claimed that the Form 50, 53 came into existence as a result of the decade long agitation by them, propagating land for agriculture and housing to be provided to the landless. Now, the minister has asked for quick scrutiny of applications, he said.
The High Court has stayed the granting of Gomala land, stating that even for 3 cows, 30 acres of Gomalas should be provided. Hence around 50 to 60 thousand applications are pending.
The Revenue Land under the Udupi-Mangaluru range is declared deemed forest under 79/2. It has to be placed before the Cabinet and denotified. This may enable granting of lands to around 30 to 40 thousand applicants. If this is accomplished 80 per cent of the applications will be cleared. This will take about 6 months, he said.
Those who have constructed houses in Revenue Land are given an extension of 3 months to submit application for regularisation. The previous government had threatened that such construction would attract a fine of Rs 3000 and imprisonment up to one year. This has scared them and they are not applying. We are searching for such people and making them apply, he said.
Responding to a call by freedom fighter H S Doreswamy, the Minister said, depending upon the availability and suitability of the government land grants would be made.
