Section 22A: Committee to study issues of genuine owners of properties; toll free number 18005-994788 to register complaints

Telangana Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Monday (August 17, 2026) has cautioned the department officials against causing hardships to residents in the name of regularisation of lands/properties listed under Section 22A of the Registration Act.

What is Section 22A?

The State Government has constituted a high level committee to resolve matters pertaining to genuine owners of properties that were wrongfully put in the prohibited list of lands. Section 22A of the Registration Act empowers the State Government to prohibit registration of specific documents and land transfers and sub-registrar’s can refuse any sale, gift or mortgage deed for properties listed under the prohibited list.

Hardships to owners

Toll free number 18005-994788, 757 applications so far

The Minister stated a toll free number 18005-994788 had been set up enabling land/property owners to register their complaints. Medchal district reported highest number of 511 applications for regularisation of properties listed under Section 22A followed by 146 in Rangareddy, 49 in Hyderabad and 38 in Sangareddy district. In all, 757 applications for regularisation were received so far by the department.

The department had thereafter reviewed the situation arising out of high number of applications for regularisation and it was resolved to ensure that genuine properties were removed from the list at the earliest. “We are against inconveniencing genuine owners of private properties. A review of the ground situation has been made and necessary steps will be taken to address the hardship caused to residents,” he said.

Reason for the challenge

The Minister affirmed that there was no cause of concern and submission of an application to the officials concerned would suffice. The department had identified problems caused as of the mistakes committed by officials and these were being rectified. “The problem arose because of not hosting the court directives online,” he said.