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| Latest amendment to Roshni Act inadequate | | | | The latest cabinet decision to grant ownership rights on three marlas of government lands occupied by the below poverty line section of the people all over the state, in rural as well as urban areas, is hardly going to satisfy the agitating occupants of government lands for last 50 to 100 years on regular lease granted to them. The government has further amended the provisions of what is popularly called Roshni Act, which already provided huge concessions to the farmers in the rural areas, in terms of conferring of ownership rights on them on agricultural lands, irrespective of its quantum, under their occupation, by extending some concession to the below poverty line occupants of the state lands. A very limited number of people are reported to be benefitted under the new scheme, since even those who are otherwise entitled to the concession are feared to fall pray to the authorities in revenue department in getting certificates of their being below poverty line. The occupants of government lands in the urban areas, particularly those who were leased out these lands by the Nazool over 60 to 100 years ago, on which they have already paid the premium fixed at that time, keeping in view the value of land prevailing then and are also paying ground rent on the same regularly, complain that they being the lawful citizens and authorized allottees of lands on lease bases, on which they had raised their buildings both residential and commercials several decades ago, are now being demanded to pay the rates varying from Rs 40 lakh to Rs 1.5 crore per kanal, while the unauthorized and illegal occupants of lands through encroachments are being treated liberally by the government in conferring the ownership rights on them in respective of the lands under their occupation through encroachments effected in the recent years. Their plea is that while the government has in the year 2005 regularized 13 colonies falling under JDA, where the ownership rights have been granted to those who had encroached the lands and raised construction on the same unauthorizedly, after charging the development cost ranging from Rs 15,000 to Rs 40,000 per kanal. The detectors of the government, including the National Conference who had first mooted the idea of conferring ownership rights on the state lands in possession of various sections of the people by charging highly concessional or nominal rates on the same and who had got adopted a bill in the state assembly in this respects charge the government of politicizing the entire issue and defeating the very purpose of the original Act, which had the double purpose to grant right of ownership on the occupants and to raise huge funds, which were to be utilized for improving the electric power sector in the state and hence the Act in this regard was given the name as Roshni Act. The general grouse has been that sections of people having their consolidating vote bank are being thrown sops, by transferring the ownership rights to them almost free of cost, the shortfall in the estimated revenue coming to the government is sought to be raised from the occupants of lands in urban areas, who are scattered and who have hardly any solid vote bank. |
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