‘5% of government land under illegal occupation’

Legislation to be enacted to cancel fake registrations

Claiming that almost 5% of the government land in Tamil Nadu is under illegal occupation, Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan on Tuesday told the Assembly that a bill will be introduced to reclaim them and cancel fake registrations. Besides, the proposed law would provide for taking retrospective action against those who had registered documents illegally. Responding to the issue of illegal registration of government land raised by legislator ‘Panruti’ T. Velmurugan, Mr. Rajan said the government had two plans to reclaim the lands. One was to develop a GPS-linked land management system with a database for the better understanding of all government departments. The other was to introduce a bill that would pave the way for correction of documents at the level of the Inspector General of Registration and take retrospective action against those who were involved in the illegal registration.