Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy speaking in the Assembly on Wednesday (September 16, 2026)

The monsoon session of the Telangana Assembly will resume on Wednesday (September 16, 2016), after being adjourned for three days from Sunday (September 13, 2016). The short discussion on the issues related to Section 22A of Registrations Act continued in the House.

Besides K. Sambasiva Rao, other MLAs who spoke on the issues pertaining to Section22A of Registrations Act were Vemula Veeresham, Naini Rajender Reddy, K Shanakaraiah, Naveen Yadav, Ahmed Bin Abdullah Balala and others. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy begun speaking on the issues in the afternoon.

The Chief Minister listed the extent of lands under various sub-sections of Section 22A, including assignment lands (24,63,940 acres); forest lands (around 42 lakh acres); State and Central government lands (around 29 lakh acres); lands under endowments and waqf (around 5.12 lakh acres); lands attached by various law enforcement agencies such as ED, CBI. All of this totals 98,31,320 acres. 

Mr. Reddy said that nearly 98,31,320 acres have to be in the prohibited (properties) list. Not even an inch can be removed from the list. If done, it amounts to injustice to people and giving a chance to encroach forest lands, he said. 

The dispute between the government and private entities is pertaining to 3,72,930 acres of private land. However, it is being claimed that one crore acres is under the prohibited properties list, he said. 

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On Saturday (September 12, 2016), Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy spoke at length about the properties under Section 22A. 

A short discussion on the effects of El Niño and remedial measures too is scheduled for today. 

The subjects on which questions may be asked in the House include career guidance cells for minority students, improvement of public transport in the CURE region and expansion of horticulture crops in the State.

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Explaining the salient feature of the Core Urban Region (Integrated Governance) Bill, 2026, the Legislative Affairs Minister D. Sridhar Babu said the population of Hyderabad when Municipal Act was introduced in 1955 was 15 lakh and the population of CURE now is 1.30 lakh. In the seven decades, the city has expanded, population has increased, industrial activities and traffic has increased. 

Mr. Sridhar Babu said that there were no heritage buildings, Metro network, lakhs of vehicles, IT corridors, data centres, electric vehicles or online services when the Act in 1955 was implemented. Times have changed. The Hyderabad city then and now is different, he said. 

Provisions for floods and disaster prevention, conservation of water bodies are not mentioned in the old Act. 

Stating that we are all moving towards the digital age and smart cities, the Minister said the new generation wants digital and smart governance. 

He said that the bill was introduced to meet the needs of this and the future generations.