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| Defence Estates Department sits on Collector's recommendations | | Payment of compensation to Budgam farmers | | Early Times Report
Budgam, Aug 5: The officials of Directorate General of Defence Estates Department New Delhi which comes under the administrative control of Ministry of Defence is not disposing off the case file containing the recommendations from the collector land acquisition Budgam. According to details the farmers allege that many months back the Deputy Commissioner Budgam who also happens to be the collector land acquisition Budgam forwarded his recommendations to DG Defence Estates New Delhi with regard to payment of fair compensation to the famers for their acquired land measuring more than 3800 kanals of land located at Karewa Damodar in District Budgam which falls within the vicinity of Srinagar International airport.
At present the Defence Estates Department has been reimbursing compensation alies Rs 6 lakhs per kanal through collector defence which the farmers say is too less for the land located in prime location of Budgam district adjoin Srinagar international airport. "During the disbursement of this compensation money (Rs 6 lakhs per kanal) we are being fleeced by the officials of the revenue department Budgam who demand huge cuts from us. We fail to understand why the Defence Estates Department is not okaying the rates alies Rs 20 lakhs per kanal recommended by the collector ie DC Budgam.
We were supposed to get rate @ Rs 80 lakhs per kanal under the new land acquisition act (four times more than actual market rate of the land) which unfortunately hasn't been enacted by J&K Government, how unfortunate we poor people are instead of getting Rs 80 lakhs per kanal we are being paid mere Rs 6 lakhs per kanal by the authorities and even to get this amount we have to beg before the revenue officials of our district? " said a farmer Mohammad Sultan from Chadoora in central Kashmir's Budgam district Pertinent to mention that a huge chunk of land measuring around 4000 Kanals which belongs to thousands of people living in several villages of Budgam district has been under lease by various central security forces for which the annual rent was being paid by the Defence Estates Department until last year.
Under the Requisition and Acquisition of Immovable Properties Act 1968 (RAIP Act 1968) which is applicable to J&K also, the Defence Estates Department acquired the said land by paying compensation to the landowners but the farmers allege that compensation paid right now is not matching with the present market value of the land and the present market value has been assessed by the collector land acquisition ie DC Budgam who has recommended the rate alies Rs 20 lakhs per kanal, but the Defence Estates Department is not vetting the rates recommended by the collector and paying compensation alies Rs 6 lakhs per kanal which is the 15 years old market rate of the Karewa Damodar area.
Karewa Damodar is located just 12 kms from Srinagar city. Humhama, New Airport, Gogo Land, Rangreth which are the posh residential areas of Srinagar outskirts are located adjacent to this Karewa and the market rate of the land in these areas ranges from 50 to 60 lakhs per kanal.
Many top politicians, bureaucrats have residential houses built in these posh locations, but inside the fencing the land acquired by Defence Estates department is being taken away from farmers for peanuts ie Rs 6 lakhs per kanal. |
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