VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh Revenue Services Association (APRSA) has urged the state government to reduce the workload on revenue employees engaged in the ongoing land resurvey. A meeting of the association’s state executive in Vijayawada on Sunday maintained that multiple government assignments are mentally stressing out the field-level revenue staff.
APRSA president Bopparaju Venkateswarlu chaired the meeting attended by representatives from all the 28 districts. In particular, discussions centred around officers’ insistence on completing their land resurvey targets without considering the ground-level constraints.
Various speakers pointed out that in addition to resurvey, revenue employees are simultaneously handling duties related to local body elections, special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, pattadar passbooks’ distribution, census training, cyclone-related duties, festival arrangements, and protocol responsibilities.
Association leaders emphasised that the additional workload is affecting the health of employees, with some of them experiencing severe mental stress.
Bopparaju appreciated the association members for their dedication towards duty despite insufficient time. He underlined that accuracy and quality must receive as much importance as speed, as the resurvey exercise would determine land records for future generations.
The association president said fifth and sixth phases cover sensitive villages that require careful verification. The four stages of e-KYC, from ground-truthing to passbook distribution, also make the process time-consuming.
However, he cautioned against mistakes, which could result in defective passbooks and erode public confidence, recalling errors in the earlier exercise that had to be corrected subsequently.
Bopparaju sought adequate time, funds, manpower, and technical support from officials, instead of undue pressure.
The association demanded new buildings for dilapidated tahsildar offices and immediate handover of 108 completed tahsildar offices and eight revenue divisional offices. Over ₹300 crore are required to clear bills pending over construction of these buildings.
Bopparaju, APRSA general secretary Chebrolu Krishna Murthy, and other leaders cited flooding at Rajolu and a building collapse at Challapalli that injured employees. They sought urgent protection of staff and government records.
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