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| PDA, Forest, Wildlife Deptts rebut Mehbooba’s allegations | | ‘Not a single family displaced due to anti-encroachment drive’ | | Early Times Report
Anantnag, Nov 16: Pahalgam Development Authority, Forest and Wildlife Department in a joint communiqué have rebutted the allegations and claims with regard to displacement of Gujjar and Bakarwal families due to anti-encroachment drive at Pahalgam on south Kashmir.
The officials at Pahalgam Development Authority said that they had initiated anti-encroachment drive at Pahalgam in compliance to the Hon’ble High Court directions that were issued on 12th of last month in a OWP(PIL) 484/2010 titled “Pahalgam Peoples Welfare Organization Versus State of J&K and Others”
They said that the notices were served to encroachers by the Forest Department, Wildlife Department and Revenue Department and as per the norms anti-encroachment and eviction drive was launched jointly by all the concerned departments.
“On 7th of November 2020 at Mamal village ( Wildlife area) in which about 120 kanals of wildlife land duly identified by Wildlife Department was retrieved from the encroachers and 1 Dhokas belonging to Abdul Khaliq Khanday S/o Mohammad Akbar Khanday R/O Mamal Pahalgam who was using the Dhoka and land for agriculture purposes only as he is the resident of Village Mamal and 1 hut belonging to Vijay Dhar was demolished,” they said.
Similarly, a second anti-encroachment drive was conducted on 9th of November 2020 in the Forest area of village Lidroo Pahalgam and more than 200 kanals of Forest land identified by the Forest Department was retrieved.
During the drive, they said, three Kothas belonging to namely Juma Khatana son of Haji Sheriya Khatana, Mohd Shafi Khatana son of Mohammad Akbar Khatana and Abdullah Gorsee SIL Nazim Gorsee were demolished as trio had already constructed concrete residential houses on Forest Land at Lidroo but in order to encroach more Forest Land they had also constructed these three Kothas at a different location in the same village.
The 3rd anti-encroachment drive, they said, was launched on 10th of November 2020 at Aru Pahalgam in which more than 700 kanals of Government land was retrieved from encroachers and two concrete structures belonging to Dr. Muzafar Jan Kochak of Anantnag and Javid Ahmad Burza of Srinagar were also demolished.
The officials’ claimed that during these drives they have retrieved about 1035 kanals of Government, Forest and Wildlife land from the encroachers
At Pahalgam, they said 2600 kanals of Forest land and 1800 kanals of Wildlife land have been encroached which is being presently used for residential as well as agriculture purposes. However only agricultural land was retrieved and no residential structure has been demolished in the process. |
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