Bhopal, August 20: Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh, has written a letter to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav. In the letter, Singh urged the Chief Minister to ensure that mortgage entries related to land records of farmers who have repaid loans from the now-defunct Land Development Bank are removed.
Singh highlighted that the continued mention of mortgages in land records causes difficulties for farmers, even if they have settled their loans or deposited the necessary amounts under the settlement scheme.
He noted that despite the bank being closed and under liquidation, many farmers’ lands are still recorded as mortgaged in revenue records. The Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank had provided long-term agricultural loans to farmers against their land.
Singh pointed out that the bank is now closed and undergoing liquidation. He also mentioned that farmers who have cleared their dues still face challenges in selling their land, conducting mutations, dividing property, and engaging in other land-related transactions due to the presence of outdated mortgage documents in government records.
This issue came to Singh’s attention through an email from Kedar Sirohi, a former member of the Madhya Pradesh Agricultural Advisory Council and a resident of Harda.
Singh requested Chief Minister Yadav to instruct officials from the Cooperatives and Revenue Departments to identify eligible farmers and ensure that their mortgaged lands are released as soon as possible. He emphasized the need for necessary directives to facilitate the prompt release of mortgaged lands and to make required corrections in the revenue records and the MP Bhulekh portal.
The Congress leader also demanded updates to the relevant entries on the MP Bhulekh portal after the removal of mortgages from revenue records. This issue affects farmers who took long-term agricultural loans from the cooperative bank and later repaid their debts.
Despite repaying their loans, some mortgage entries remain in land records, creating administrative hurdles for property transactions. Singh’s letter calls for a coordinated process between the Cooperatives and Revenue Departments to verify such cases and update records, allowing eligible farmers to utilize and transact their land without further difficulties.
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