In a fresh move to shore up the state exchequer, thegovernment has decided to take up another round of regularisation of illegal structures built on encroached government land. Whileencroachmentsbelow 125 square yards of land will be regularised free of cost under the GO 58, the encroachments above 125 sq yards would be regularised by collecting penal amount based on basic value of the land.
The Telangana government had first provided this opportunity of regularisation in 2014 afterTRScame to power. Committees have been constituted at district, secretary and government level to scrutinise the applications and clear them. There was a criticism on the GO earlier that even affluent people who had encroached upon the government land even in areas such as Jubilee Hills, Madhapur and other upmarket locations got theirencroached landregularised paying a fee.