Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct, 31: A group of 25 former bureaucrats, police officers, technocrats, doctors, army veterans and businessmen formed an online civil society group under the name of Citizens' Forum for Public Concerns (CFPC). It seeks to discuss apolitically various public issues including good governance and come up with some recommendations that would be sent to the Govt for consideration besides bringing these to public domain. It is headed by Er J S Sudan with K B Jandial as its coordinator.
In its first webinar, the Group discussed the recently introduced land laws and scrapping of the earlier State Subject regime. Feeling that timing of these changes are not appropriate, it was however felt that new land regime was a natural corollary of abrogation of Article 35A & Article 370 and once discriminatory law was scrapped it was natural that any Indian citizen can come and buy property in J&K. In this regime, there should be no room for any fear on allowing anybody to buy private land as is being done elsewhere in the country. "The new law does not take away anybody's land forcefully and the property holders are free to take their own decisions". Moreover, there is adequate restriction on sale of agricultural land and grazing land.
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