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JAMMU: The 254 C order of 1965 of J&K government has already given the ownership rights on Government land allotted to PoJK displaced persons to be excluded from the state order marking the entire state land in the negative list, said Dr. Narinder Singh Raina.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Secretary Dr. Narinder Singh Raina accompanied by former MLC Choudhary Vikram Randhawa, Office Secretary Tilak Raj Gupta, Media Incharge Dr. Pardeep Mahotra, and senior leader Manmohan Singh was addressing a Press Conference at BJP Headquarters, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.

Dr. Narinder Singh, while addressing the media, said that the displaced persons from PoJK, (he also spoke of the Parliamentary resolution of February 1994) who resided in camps as well as in non-camps were allotted lands under 578 C, in 1954 for agriculture use, which was evacuee as well as government property. Under 254 C order, they were given ownership rights in 1965, but unfortunately, under a recent order, the abovesaid land was put under red land.

In 1976, under Agrarian Reform Act, the land allotted to PoJK displaced persons was excluded from this act under schedule II implying that this can be transferred to kins and can be sold till now. But now government land allotted to PoJK displaced persons has been added under state land by an order of J&K government thus preventing its transfer to kins and its sale.  We request LG of Jammu & Kashmir to again exclude the pre-said government land allotted to PoJK (1947,65,71) displaced persons from this order.

When the displaced persons came here, the government developed their colonies (Basti). He also requested the LG administration to regularize those colonies. These colonies are ā€˜De’ Basties, so they cannot be registered on individual names, and hence one cannot avail loans, or sell the land. There were earlier 46 colonies (Basties), but now the number of Basties have increased, we request LG to regularize and register them all.

West Pakistan Refugees’ land is also evacuee property and state land, he also demanded to regularize them. He said that these people cannot take benefit of government schemes like Kissan Samman Nidhi in absence of the land ownership rights. He pointed out that the Modi government provided all the rights to these people especially empowered them politically and also socio-economically. But these are not able to get their due benefits.

He said that the funds for the farmers’ land used for the fencing near the borders by the government are lying undisbursed in government offices like DC offices due to the non-clearance of the title of the land, and thus the affected persons are not able to claim their benefits.

He also mentioned the local allottees of J&K, which were residing in J&K before 1947. These were landless people who got the lands after 1947 under different heads. They are not able to claim any benefits due to the non-clearances of the title. The affected persons cannot claim the benefits under the PMAY and other such schemes, he said.

ā€œThe original 254 C order implemented in 1965 for ownership rights to PoJK displaced persons’ land should kept as such. Also, the recent order declaring the government land allotted to PoJK displaced persons as state land may be declared null and voidā€, said Dr. Narinder Raina. In 1947, during the armed Kabaili attack, the lands of persons who migrated to Sialkot, instead of PoJK, should be registered in the names of people residing on those lands since 1947, as those persons have migrated to Pakistan.

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