State Land in Kashmir List
Despite brewing resentment the Jammu and Kashmir administration has asked the concerned revenue officers to ensure 100 percent removal of encroachments from state land, including Roshni and Kahcharai by January end. The order by Vijay Kumar Bidhuri, Commissioner Secretary Revenue to all deputy commissioners of the Union Territory was passed even as several review petitions challenging the Roshni Act judgment lie pending before the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Bidhuri has also listed a set of instructions for effective monitoring of the anti-encroachment drive. The encroachment list involves highly influential persons of J&K including politicians from all major political parties and businessmen who have taken prized locations for peanuts.
State Land in Kashmir List – State Land in Kashmir
The benefits of regularisation granted to the beneficiaries under the Roshni Act were withdrawn by the Division Bench of the J&K High Court, which was led by the then Chief Justice Gita Mittal, when handling PIL No 19/2011 and other related concerns.
The Roshni Act was first introduced in the budget speech of 2000 by then finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather of the NC. In 2005, the PDP government-led by (late) Mufti Mohammed Syed relaxed the cut-off year to 2004. The Congress government led by Ghulam Nabi Azad, further relaxed the cut-off year to 2007.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, in a 2014 report, had stated that only Rs 76 crore had been collected from the transfer of encroached land between 2007 and 2013, as against the target of about Rs 25,000 crore.
All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference, a body of elected panchayat members, on Sunday threatened block-wise protests across the Union Territory against any “anti-encroachment” drive aimed at retrieving state land which has been in possession of people for decades.
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