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Districts slowly resolving registered complaints

Survey adalats in Thiruvananthapuram, which are looking into the appeals challenging resurvey records, are slowly trying to untangle the muddle.
Districts slowly resolving registered complaints
KOCHI: Survey adalats in Thiruvananthapuram, which are looking into the appeals challenging resurvey records, are slowly trying to untangle the muddle. Till date, adalats in the district have registered 73,438 petitions and 45,258 petitions have been disposed.
Adalats in each taluk is led by an additional tahsildar and a dedicated survey team. But, sources said the actual number of complaints against resurvey documents would easily cross the 1-lakh mark if the cases in civil courts are also counted.
The litigations are on a range of issues from ‘change of boundary’ to the ‘change of landowner’s name’.
In Ernakulam, 65% of the process has been completed. “Resurvey has been completed in Kunnathunad and Aluva. In Kochi taluk, 50% of work has been completed. In Kanayannoor, all areas except portions coming under the city corporation and Tripunithura municipality is over,” said A K Bava, assistant director, survey and land records department. In Kothamangalam and Muvattupuzha, the work is yet to begin. In Kozhikode, resurvey has been completed only in 15 villages. While resurvey activities are yet to begin in Kozhikode taluk and the newly formed Thamarassery taluk, resurvey is over in only one village in Koyilandy and 14 villages in Vadakara.
So far the survey department has received 27,766 complaints related to resurvey and other land-related complaints. According to official figures, they have settled 18,959 complaints and 9,171 are still pending. Majority of the complainants demanded a resurvey of the surveyed land, said officials.
In Kannur, resurvey works are progressing in Taliparamba, where it has been completed in 20 villages. Before the Iritty taluk was formed, resurvey of seven villages coming under the new taluk had been partially completed. The work in remaining villages in the new taluk will resume after Taliparamba work is completed. Records state that of the 1,19,708.5301 hectares in Taliparamba, resurvey of only 50,398.2674 hectares is over. This is just 19% of the total of over 27,11,051 hectares of land to be resurveyed in the district.

In Idukki, resurvey has to be completed in 26 villages. This include all the 10 villages in Peermade, 12 out of the 23 in Udumbanchola, 3 out of the 19 in Thodupuzha and the Kannan Devan Hills (KDH) village in Devikulam. According to official figures till April, the total number of complaints received is 31,079. Of this, 11,151 complaints are yet to be settled.
In Kottayam, the resurvey work in Vaikom is pending. The complaints received over the past one year at the district survey superintendent’s office from Vaikom, Kottayam, Meenachil, Kanjirappally and Changanassery taluks are 3,375. Of this, 2,986 complaints are still pending.
Resurvey has been completed in four taluks of Alappuzha and it is progressing at a snail’s pace in Cherthala and Kuttanad. According to deputy director Mohan Dev, shortage of staff is the reason for the slow progress. “We have received 48,442 complaints and as many as 35,160 complaints were settled,” he said.
Of the 138 villages in Malappuram, resurvey was done in 45 villages. District collector K Biju said that the process in other villages will be started soon and the survey department is perusing pending applications received for resurvey in various villages. “Each village has received 300 to 400 applications and resurvey on more than half of the applications has been completed,” said revenue divisional officer, Tirur, K Gopalan.
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