Telangana Rashtra Samiti which came to power by making allegations on crooked Seema Andhra politicians and industrialists and after coming to power, TRS wants to prove that in broad day light. As a part of this, Telangana government is trying to recover encroached government lands. It is said that 17,513 acres of government land worth Rs three lakh crore in Ranga Reddy district was taken over illegally by individuals and institutions, many of them being either politicians or industrialists from the Seemandhra region.
A former minister in the previous Congress government who had held an important portfolio is the main kingpin of this encroachment dhandha. Most of the encroached land is located in Qutubullapur, Uppal, Malkajgiri, Medchal, Serilingampally, Saroornagar, Hayathnagar, Shamirpet, Moinabad and Balanagar. Government suspects revenue officials aiding the politicians and had transferred all of them before taking up this exercise. Government is going to setup a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to investigate in to these cases and recover the grabbed lands.
