news details |
|
|
| Protest held against ‘Roshni’ | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 12
Hundreds of aggrieved lease holders / occupants of Nazool / government lands in Jammu city, alleging irrational implementation of Roshni Act, today held protest outside Jammu Press Club premises. Later the demonstrators took out a procession, passing through some parts of the city and culminating at City Chowk.
Speaking on the occasion the leaders of the demonstrators, Inderjeet Khajuria convener, Gajan Singh Secretary and others condemned the undue harassment and hardships being caused to the genuine lease holders of Nazool and other government lands, who have already paid the fixed premium as well as have been regularly paying ground rent in respect of lands under their occupation for last 50 to 60 years, as a result of exorbitant rates fixed arbitrarily by the concerned revenue officers, for conferring of ownership rights on them of the lands in their procession, under the Jammu and Kashmir State Lands (investing of ownership to occupants) Act, popularly called Roshni Act.
Khajuria assailed the government for misleading and misinforming the people that the affected people are depositing the amounts fixed against them and said that these are only few millionaires and land grabbers, who are depositing the fixed amounts, while the poor and lower middle class people, who are feeling the real pinch in the matter have no alternative than to come to the streets to oppose this injustice against them. Hard pressed and threatened to come on the streets in the event of the lands in their procession and buildings raised on them being confiscated by the government in case of their failure to make payments of huge amounts, beyond their capacity to pay, they have no alternative than to adopt to agitational path.
Singh appealed to all the aggrieved parties to join hands and fight against this grave injustice jointly, instead of meekly surrendering before the high handedness of the authorities. Informing the participants in the demonstration that the forum is challenging the Act and rules and regulations framed under it arbitrarily and irrationally, fixing exorbitant rates, which are discriminatory against the law abiding genuine lease holders, the leader said that the Act and rules and regulations framed under it cannot stand the scrutiny of law, since several clauses of the Act are ultra virus of the fundamental rights of the citizens guaranteed under the constitution.
Others who addressed the demonstrators included S S Pathania, Ajay Bakshi, Iqbal Khullar, Somnath Sharma, Rameshvar Singh and Mahinder Vaid. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
