Visakhapatnam, Sep 19 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday distributed house site title deeds here to over 28,000 families, granting the beneficiaries full ownership of land valued at nearly Rs 9,000 crore.
Through the distribution of title deeds to 28,445 families, 399 acres of land is being regularised, encompassing over 19.3 lakh sq yards of area and ending a four-decade-long wait for ownership rights.
Naidu personally handed over some title deeds to the beneficiaries.
“This is the first time that such a large-scale regularisation and distribution of house-site title deeds is being undertaken in Visakhapatnam,” said an official press release earlier.
Thousands of families have been living in houses they had built for themselves in the port city without full legal rights over the land.
The absence of title deeds prevented them from fully enjoying, transferring or securing their properties for the future, said the press release, adding that the coalition government has brought an end to this long-pending problem.
On receiving ownership rights, the beneficiaries can enjoy financial and social security, bequeath properties to their children, gain self-respect and confidence about their future, it said.
The CM directed officials to regularise government land on which these houses had been constructed, wherever there were no objections, and grant ownership rights to the occupants.
The land regularisation process will benefit families across several areas from Gajuwaka in Vizag up to Bheemili. PTI STH ROH
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