Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 1: A division bench of Jammu & Kashmir High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Sindhu Sharma ordered that the project work of leveling the land, construction of approach road, drains, water supply, electrical fittings etc. may also be completed at the earliest.
The directions were issued In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the displaced inhabitants of village Saddal in tehsil Mongri of Udhampur district, which was devastated due to landslide in the year 2014. The division bench observed that the compliance report brings on record an order dated November 24, 2021 issued by the Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur, by which a team of five persons was constituted for the purposes of allotment of land to 132 displaced families of Village Saddal.
It was decided that five Marlas of land to each of the family was to be allotted. The team was directed to make allotments in a transparent manner and to execute the lease agreements. S. S. Nanda, senior additional advocate general pointed out that out of 132 families, 60 families have migrated to their original land in Saddal as after the floods it was found that their land was not so seriously damaged and they can rehabilitate themselves on the said land itself.
The AAG informed that only 62 families remain to whom rehabilitation package has to be granted. They could not be allotted land as the committee was in a fix whether to include or not to include the families who have left in the allotment procedure. The DB said that it is clarified that after the 60 families have migrated to their original place, the land be first allotted to the remaining 62 families latest by March 31, 2022 and the project work of leveling the land, construction of approach road, drains, water supply, electrical fittings etc. may also be completed at the earliest. |
