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| Congress leaders stage protest demanding land compensation to farmers | | | 
Early times Report
Sunderbani, Sept 8: Former Minister and DCC President Rajouri Shabir Ahmed Khan and chief Spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Ravinder Sharma, former MLC, today led a protest dharna at Siot by the farmers and land owners who are deprived of compensation for the widening of road to Rajouri.
A large number of people whose land, houses and shops are being demolished without prior payment of compensation assembled at Siot and took out a protest March from main road to Tehsil complex Siot led by Mr Sharma and shabir khan demanding adequate payments of compensation as per market rate and new law before demolishing their properties and damaging their crops. Prominent citizens and sarpanchs, panchs apprised the gathering that the people have not been paid compensation of the land already occupied for the road decades ago and they are again being uprooted without payment of compensation to the affected people.
The people alleged that government is doing great Injustice to them as neither the earlier compensation nor present compensation has been paid and the assessment of the rate is totally against law. The rate per Marla is around ten lac but govt has assessed it at rupees 4.70 lac per Kanal of twenty Marlas.
Whereas as per new land acquisition act enforced in J and K now, the government is bound to give compensation at the rate of four times of the market rate whereas government is depriving people of the present rate also and not disbursed the same. |
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