: The State government has decided to do away with the practice of insisting on physical records like passbooks pertaining to land ownership for extending loans and other benefits to farmers.
The government will make it optional for the land holders/owners to obtain physical copy of the land record and it proposes to introduce a single document – title deed-cum-passbook – in place of the existing practice of obtaining two separate documents.
The government introduced a Bill amending the Andhra Pradesh Rights In Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act 1971 in the Assembly on Saturday.
Piloting the Bill on behalf of the Deputy Chief Minister and Revenue Minister K.E. Krishnamurthy, Labour Minister K. Atchannaidu said the bankers would forthwith be asked to grant loans based on the revenue records maintained electronically in the software Webland without insisting on physical production of any type of revenue records from farmers. Likewise, registration officers would be asked to effect registration of the property on the basis electronically maintained records.
The Minister said the Government had dispensed with issuance of manual pattadar passbooks since September 2014 and commenced issuing e-passbooks through Mee Seva online portal.
These e-passbooks were equipped with a number of security features and bankers had been provided with facility to view the Webland and create loan charge by providing loan charge creation module. The webland software had been integrated with the Registration department.
“In view of the digitisation of records, there is no need to make it compulsory to issue passbooks to land owners,” he said.
Age limit raised
The government has decided to raise the maximum age limit of the chairman and members of the AP Electricity Regulatory Commission from the existing 65 to 70 years. An amendment would be made to the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Reform Act, 1998 to this effect.
Introducing a Bill to this effect, Mr. Atchannaidu said the Electricity Act 2003, stipulated that no chairman or member of the commission should hold office after attaining the age of 65 years.
A judge of the High Court would retire on attaining the age of 62 and no chairman would be in a position to complete the full term of five years.
No age limit had been prescribed for the chairman or members of the Central Electricity Authority and it was decided to enhance the age limit to provide for re-appointment as chairman or member till completion of full term of five years.
Amendments to
law varsity Act
The government had decided to increase the term of the Vice-Chancellor of the Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University from the existing three years to five years. It was also decided to ensure that 50 per cent of the seats were filled in line with the provisions of the AP Educational Institution (regulation of admissions) Order, 1974, 40 per cent of the seats should be allotted on all India basis and the remaining 10 per cent would be allotted to foreign citizens/non-resident Indians.
Moving the Bill, the Minister said the Bill provided for setting up a campus at Nizamabad. However, the provision would be omitted from the Bill as the erstwhile united State had been bifurcated into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
