Anti-encroachment drive in Jammu and Kashmir not halted, continues relentlessly
5 min readExpress News Service
SRINAGAR: Notwithstanding the protests from folks and political events, the Lt Governor administration in Jammu and Kashmir has not halted the anti-encroachment drive and the drive is happening relentlessly to retrieve the state, grazed and Roshni Act land from the encroachers.
A prime authorities official instructed this newspaper that the anti-encroachment drive in J&Okay has not been stopped or halted.
“The anti-encroachment drive is being carried out on directions of the Court. It is going according to the proper and systematic manner. A lot of progress has been achieved in the anti-encroachment drive so far. Now we are consolidating and securing it. After consolidation, the drive will further pick up momentum,” he stated.
The official, nevertheless, asserted that the drive is happening and the anti-encroachment drive can solely be stopped if courtroom orders its halt.
70 % of targets have been achieved in the course of the anti-encroachment drive thus far, he stated.
In October 2020, J&Okay High Court had declared unconstitutional, unlawful and unsustainable the 2001 Roshni Act, which gave possession rights to the unauthorised occupants of state land in opposition to fee of a premium, and ordered a CBI probe to research the allotment of the land.
While J&Okay authorities anticipated to understand over Rs 25,000 crores as income from regularization of the land underneath the Roshni Act, a 2014 CAG report famous that solely Rs 76 crores had been realised from switch of encroached land between 2007 and 2013.
J&Okay Chief Secretary A Okay Mehta throughout a overview assembly just lately had requested officers to go for geo-referencing and digitization of all retrieved land from the encroachers.
The officers had been directed to add particulars of the land retrieved throughout J&Okay on the portal for inside scrutiny.
Asserting that the drive is happening easily barring a number of minor incidents, the official stated, “The drive has got public support. No common person is being harassed during the drive. Only fear was created that common people will be harassed but no common person was harassed or impacted by the drive”.
“There were only two incidents in Kashmir – one in city centre Lal Chowk and another at Mehjoor Nagar – and these were corrected,” he stated.
An enormous stone pelting had taken place within the Jammu space when a showroom was demolished. Authorities later deployed further forces within the space to limit public motion whereas demolishing the showroom. There have additionally been protests in different components of the UT additionally.
The official stated the ant-encroachment drive is happening easily and folks have by and huge supported it. “Without public support, this drive against the land grabbers could not have been successful”.
The political events have opposed the anti-encroachment drive and use of bulldozers to demolish the buildings.
After the launch of the anti-encroachment drive final month, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha had stated solely influential folks, who misused their place to encroach the state land, can be focused whereas the frequent and poor males received’t be touched.
However, folks need the officers to respect the phrase of Lt Governor on the bottom.
In January this 12 months, the federal government had directed all 20 Deputy Commissioners of J&Okay to make sure that all encroachments on State land, grazing and Roshni Act land are eliminated by January 31, 2023. However, the deadline has been prolonged now.
SRINAGAR: Notwithstanding the protests from folks and political events, the Lt Governor administration in Jammu and Kashmir has not halted the anti-encroachment drive and the drive is happening relentlessly to retrieve the state, grazed and Roshni Act land from the encroachers.
A prime authorities official instructed this newspaper that the anti-encroachment drive in J&Okay has not been stopped or halted.
“The anti-encroachment drive is being carried out on directions of the Court. It is going according to the proper and systematic manner. A lot of progress has been achieved in the anti-encroachment drive so far. Now we are consolidating and securing it. After consolidation, the drive will further pick up momentum,” he stated.
The official, nevertheless, asserted that the drive is happening and the anti-encroachment drive can solely be stopped if courtroom orders its halt.
70 % of targets have been achieved in the course of the anti-encroachment drive thus far, he stated.
In October 2020, J&Okay High Court had declared unconstitutional, unlawful and unsustainable the 2001 Roshni Act, which gave possession rights to the unauthorised occupants of state land in opposition to fee of a premium, and ordered a CBI probe to research the allotment of the land.
While J&Okay authorities anticipated to understand over Rs 25,000 crores as income from regularization of the land underneath the Roshni Act, a 2014 CAG report famous that solely Rs 76 crores had been realised from switch of encroached land between 2007 and 2013.
J&Okay Chief Secretary A Okay Mehta throughout a overview assembly just lately had requested officers to go for geo-referencing and digitization of all retrieved land from the encroachers.
The officers had been directed to add particulars of the land retrieved throughout J&Okay on the portal for inside scrutiny.
Asserting that the drive is happening easily barring a number of minor incidents, the official stated, “The drive has got public support. No common person is being harassed during the drive. Only fear was created that common people will be harassed but no common person was harassed or impacted by the drive”.
“There were only two incidents in Kashmir – one in city centre Lal Chowk and another at Mehjoor Nagar – and these were corrected,” he stated.
An enormous stone pelting had taken place within the Jammu space when a showroom was demolished. Authorities later deployed further forces within the space to limit public motion whereas demolishing the showroom. There have additionally been protests in different components of the UT additionally.
The official stated the ant-encroachment drive is happening easily and folks have by and huge supported it. “Without public support, this drive against the land grabbers could not have been successful”.
The political events have opposed the anti-encroachment drive and use of bulldozers to demolish the buildings.
After the launch of the anti-encroachment drive final month, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha had stated solely influential folks, who misused their place to encroach the state land, can be focused whereas the frequent and poor males received’t be touched.
However, folks need the officers to respect the phrase of Lt Governor on the bottom.
In January this 12 months, the federal government had directed all 20 Deputy Commissioners of J&Okay to make sure that all encroachments on State land, grazing and Roshni Act land are eliminated by January 31, 2023. However, the deadline has been prolonged now.
