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| Revenue employees busy to convert Agriculture land to conversion | | Admin sleeps as conversion of agriculture land continues in Kathua | |  Arun Trisal
Early Times Report
Kathua, Apr 8: Despite strict instructions from local administration and various legislations including J&K Land Revenue Act, Agrarian Reforms Act and different sections in J&K constitution, the conversion of agrarian land for commercial and non-agricultural purposes continues across district Kathua including Tehsil Marheen.
Hundreds of acres of agricultural land is being converted into non- agricultural land as the administration watches like a spectator, the locals said.
In Jammu and Kashmir, under Section 133-A of the J&K Land Revenue Act, no agriculture land can be put to any other use. Under Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act which came into force in 1939, there is a complete prohibition on converting of paddy or vegetable lands, floating fields etc into any other use. The second legislation viz. Jammu and Kashmir Prohibition on Conversion of Land and Alienation of Orchards Act came into force. The need for enacting the said legislation was to prevent the people from converting the paddy land into other purposes.
One such case came into light when at Karndi Khurd in tehsil Marheen near Rajbagh where agriculture land is being unabatedly bifurcated into plots and sold at high price.
Property dealers forcibly pay margin amount to the farmers and creates plots. Local people pointed out the conversion of land as a small nallha flowing through that land which is the ultimate source of irrigation for down side areas.
People appealed to the Revenue department to prevent conversion of the land.
Meanwhile, the wheat crop is on the row in the field, a culvert is also constructed on the distributaries' without having the prior permission of concerned officers.
Tehsildar Marheen, Jatinder Singh, ensured to verify the matter. He assured strict action against the persons involved in conversion of the land. |
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