BJP demands transfer of evacuee property rights to local allottees in J&K

Lauding the L-G’s decision, helium asked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to assistance proprietary rights to section allottees of evacuee property/land, some successful municipality and agrarian areas.

Conferment of proprietary rights of evacuee properties successful favour of displaced persons from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and the refugees from West Pakistan was the first major step, the BJP person said. The travel up and the 2nd measurement of incorporating section allottees should beryllium walked by the Omar authorities without immoderate delay, helium said.

The move, Sharma said, volition empower farmers, mediate class, marginalised and disadvantaged sections of the society. Local allottees are mostly section Dogras of Jammu Province who person been allotted oregon fixed possession of evacuee lands nether Cabinet Order 578-C, Government Order LB-7 and Government Order Reh 371 of 1971 work on with Second Schedule of Agrarian Reforms Act.

The full fig of evacuee properties, which are mostly located successful Jammu Province, is 2,56,846, helium said adding that 7161 of these were municipality properties with their full marketplace worth adding up to respective thousands of crores.

Sharma further pressed for due compensation successful favour of section allottees of the evacuee lands, which person been acquired by the authorities for nationalist purposes successful the past.

He besides said that nether the existent ineligible regime, astir 80 per cent of the full compensation should beryllium paid to the allottees. However, the collectors bash not transportation the compensation magnitude of acquired lands successful favour of section allottees. He said the interests of allottees and morganatic occupants, whose allotted lands person been acquired, should beryllium protected done conscionable compensation.

He besides demanded disbanding of the Custodian Department, saying that the Operating Expense Ratio (OER), arsenic compared to its income, is precise precocious and it betrays communal consciousness to warrant its existence.

The BJP person said that astir each evacuee spot comes nether the idiosyncratic who crossed implicit successful enactment of the instauration of Pakistan. After 75 years of independence, having a section for managing properties of those who, driven by ‘Two Nation Theory’, stood for Pakistan and crossed over, betrays each communal sense.

Once Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) is taken backmost from amerciable concern of Pakistan, the contented of Hindu-Sikh evacuee spot successful PoJK could besides beryllium settled, helium said.

Sharma demanded that the Evacuee Property Act should beryllium repealed to the grade of doing distant with the ineligible authorities of Custodian to Custodian General. He besides said that for the intervening period, a Relief Commissioner of the fertile of Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, not beryllium little than a Senior IAS serviceman oregon Senior astir JKAS serviceman from the persecuted assemblage only, should beryllium created to adjudicate issues related to conferment of ownership rights/earlier allotments.