Cracking the whip on land invaders in Hyderabad, K. Chandrasekhar Rao Chief Minister has asked officials to ensure that every inch of land in the capital had title.

Mr. Rao held a meeting with Finance Minister Eatala Rajender and senior officials to discuss measures to protect government land, build houses for slum dwellers and distribute pattas of land occupied by the poor in Hyderabad.

An official statement said later that Mr. Rao tasked with developing guidelines for the protection of land and cope with the invaders, and leased lands assigned to a committee of secretaries headed by the chief secretary S. Narsing Rao. A meeting of right with collectors and revenue officers around Hyderabad will take place on 9 December.

The meeting will review government land available in the city, encroachments, constructions, misuse and vacant.

Ask the officials to initiate tough action against invaders, Mr. Rao insisted that poorer pattas if they lived in government lands. "The earth shall resume invaders. The officials should not hesitate to book people who occupied lands worth crores under the Preventive Detention Act. It should be high regardless of background and political affiliation. Even TRS leaders rulers should be spared, "Rao said.

Mr. Rao said that surplus land urban land ceiling and government were exposed to invasions in the city for real estate dealers and builders. At the same time, migrant labor built huts and sheds living in the city. The government will take a lenient view with the latter and provided alternative accommodation if they lived in places that lead to drains.

The Prime Minister also said that unions of people who usurped land from the government, created fake stamps, stamp paper certificates and flourished in the city. There were thousands of court cases relating to these malpractices, said. Mr. Rao asked people to get their buildings on the grounds of regularized government, failing which the land is resumed.