Summary:
A Bill to amend the Telangana Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977, was passed for the purpose. Mahmood Ali, who also holds the Revenue portfolio, stated that the Act was first amended in 2007 in combined Andhra Pradesh for regularisation of assigned lands transferred to others till September 30, 2007. The State Government on Saturday assured the Assembly that transfer of assigned lands would be allowed only in case they are in the possession of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes persons and not others. A total of 20,13,833 acres land was assigned to dalits in Telangana so far and out of it 2,14,627 was in possession of others. He also allayed the fears of members including Sandra Venkata Veeraiah, Sunnam Rajaiah and others that the assigned lands would not be transferred to other communities and if they were found to be in the possession of non-SC/ST persons, they would resumed..