Archive · 10 Oct 2026
Telangana to Restore Physical Land Records Alongside Bhu Bharati
Telangana plans to check land boundaries across the state again.
The government will keep paper records at local offices as well as online records in the Bhu Bharati system.
Officials say paper records can help people verify who owns land and reduce chances of records being changed improperly.
The first phase includes 2,768 villages, and work has been completed in 245 so far.
The government hopes to finish this phase by the end of November.
The full re-survey is expected to take 18 months.
Officials will track progress and inspect the work regularly.
The survey is also expected to help settle different kinds of land disputes.
The Telangana government will restore field-level physical land records alongside the online Bhu Bharati system.
A comprehensive re-survey of land parcels is expected to be completed within 18 months.
The first phase covers 2,768 villages; surveys have been completed in 245.
The government aims to finish the first phase by the end of November.
Officials say updated physical records and clearer boundaries are intended to prevent record manipulation and help resolve land disputes.
- Who
- The Telangana state government, led on the exercise by Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and revenue and survey officials.
- What
- A comprehensive land re-survey and restoration of physical land records alongside the online Bhu Bharati system.
- When
- The re-survey is expected to take 18 months; the first phase is targeted for completion by the end of November.
- Where
- Across Telangana, beginning with 2,768 villages in the first phase.
- Why
- To reduce manipulation of ownership records, clarify land boundaries and help resolve land disputes.
Case for restoring physical records
Risks and challenges noted
Paper records alongside digital records
Case for restoring physical records
The government says field-level physical records can help prevent manipulation and provide records for checking ownership details.
Risks and challenges noted
The article reports that updated digital entries were not available in physical form after manual pahani maintenance ended in 2020, leaving a gap when discrepancies needed verification.
Scope and execution of the re-survey
Case for restoring physical records
The minister says the survey offers an opportunity for a lasting solution to land disputes and is being supported with monitoring, teams and equipment.
Risks and challenges noted
The article does not present a named opposing position, but notes the scale of the task: the first phase covers thousands of villages and officials must meet an 18-month timeline.
- Re-survey timeline
- Expected to be completed within 18 months.
- First-phase villages
- 2,768 villages, including 365 without survey maps and 2,240 selected at a rate of 70 per district.
- Completed so far
- Survey work has been completed in 245 villages.
- First-phase target
- The government is targeting completion by the end of November.
- Monitoring
- Officials will review progress weekly; the minister will conduct reviews every 15 days.
- Field teams
- Two survey teams have been formed for each mandal.
- Physical records
- The Bhu Bharati (Record of Rights) Act, 2025 provides for physical land documents from village and mandal offices through state-level offices.