PATNA, Feb. 3 -- Amid the ongoing special land survey in Bihar, the Bihar government has so far identified 31,60,947 government khesra involving 17,86,276 acres of land, according to the statistics provided by the department of revenue and land reforms.

The government has started the process of verification of the government land, as the last survey was done over 70 years ago. It is being viewed as a major success of the department of revenue and land reforms.

The government had earlier initiated the process of locking landholding details (khata/khesra) of ownership of lakhs of acres of the government land across the state to prevent any future transaction.

Conforming the fact, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), department of revenue an...