MHA acquires over 139 acres of land in Srinagar for promotion of tourism

Express News Service

SRINAGAR: In a bid to advertise tourism and different developmental actions in Srinagar round 139.04 acres of defence land at Tatoo floor, Batamaloo has been transferred to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on this regard was signed by the Ministry of Defence with the Ministry of Home Affairs via the Jammu and Kashmir authorities in the present day.  Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha presided over the MoU signing ceremony at Raj Bhawan, in Srinagar.

The MoD was represented via the Local Military Authority of Tattoo Ground Garrison and Defence Estate Officer Kashmir Circle Srinagar.

The 139.04 acres of defence land might be handed over by the Ministry of Defence to MHA inside a interval of 4 months.

Lt Governor Sinha termed the MoU as a momentous event in creating main tourism house in J&Okay UT.

In 2015, the then J&Okay authorities headed by the late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had taken over 136 kanals of land from the military at Tattoo Ground, Batamaloo for establishing a citizen Park.

The then Mufti authorities had been asking the military to vacate about 1,000 kanals of the prime land at Tattoo Ground.  In 2015, after a civil-military liaison convention chaired by the late Mufti Sayeed, the military had agreed to vacate 136 kanals of land to the then J&Okay authorities.

Meanwhile, the Lt Governor administration has authorised sanction for the switch of State land measuring 757 Kanal 6 Marla at village Rakh Buran, Singhpora in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district in favour of the Ministry of Defence in trade for Equal Value Land (EVL) in Tattoo Ground Srinagar on no revenue no loss foundation by way of Rule-310 of GFR 2017.

“The land shall be the part of the EVL of the land for which sanction was conveyed by MoD vide No.A/51120/Q3L (North)/181/31/S/ D(Lands) dated 22nd February 1990 and the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir in consultation with defence authorities shall work out the actual value of the land on EVL basis at all locations,” reads an official order.

SRINAGAR: In a bid to advertise tourism and different developmental actions in Srinagar round 139.04 acres of defence land at Tatoo floor, Batamaloo has been transferred to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on this regard was signed by the Ministry of Defence with the Ministry of Home Affairs via the Jammu and Kashmir authorities in the present day.  Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha presided over the MoU signing ceremony at Raj Bhawan, in Srinagar.

The MoD was represented via the Local Military Authority of Tattoo Ground Garrison and Defence Estate Officer Kashmir Circle Srinagar.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The 139.04 acres of defence land might be handed over by the Ministry of Defence to MHA inside a interval of 4 months.

Lt Governor Sinha termed the MoU as a momentous event in creating main tourism house in J&Okay UT.

In 2015, the then J&Okay authorities headed by the late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had taken over 136 kanals of land from the military at Tattoo Ground, Batamaloo for establishing a citizen Park.

The then Mufti authorities had been asking the military to vacate about 1,000 kanals of the prime land at Tattoo Ground.  In 2015, after a civil-military liaison convention chaired by the late Mufti Sayeed, the military had agreed to vacate 136 kanals of land to the then J&Okay authorities.

Meanwhile, the Lt Governor administration has authorised sanction for the switch of State land measuring 757 Kanal 6 Marla at village Rakh Buran, Singhpora in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district in favour of the Ministry of Defence in trade for Equal Value Land (EVL) in Tattoo Ground Srinagar on no revenue no loss foundation by way of Rule-310 of GFR 2017.

“The land shall be the part of the EVL of the land for which sanction was conveyed by MoD vide No.A/51120/Q3L (North)/181/31/S/ D(Lands) dated 22nd February 1990 and the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir in consultation with defence authorities shall work out the actual value of the land on EVL basis at all locations,” reads an official order.