PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 26 -- For thousands of families across the Prayagraj division, a visit to the tehsil office has become a recurring nightmare, land disputes stretching into years, with no end in sight. The scale of the crisis is stark: 1,06,369 revenue cases remain pending across the division's 19 tehsils, many dragging on for over five years, leaving rural and semi-urban families financially drained and caught in administrative limbo.

Prayagraj district carries the heaviest load with 42,640 unresolved cases, followed by Pratapgarh at 30,769, Fatehpur at 12,313 and Kaushambi at 8,012. Within Prayagraj district, Soraon tehsil has emerged as the worst-hit, where residents say years of hearings have yielded little result. Land disputes in th...