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| Roshni: 1.2 lakh cases settled for Rs 55 cr | | Lesser land, more money from Kashmir | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, March 9: The Government today said that it regularized 1.2 lakh cases of illegal occupation of state land under the Roshni act and realized an amount of Rs Crores in last one year.
Interestingly, the number of cases disposed off in Jammu Division are nearly ten times higher than those in Kashmir Division but the revenue realization statement is quite opposite. This underlines that most of the illegally occupied state land regularized in Kashmir happened to be prime commercial land.
Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today said in the Legislative Assembly that under J&K State Land (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act 2001, a total number of 2,00,659 applications have been received in the State. Of these, 1,49,786 applications have been received in Jammu Province while as 50,873 in Kashmir Province. He said as many as 1,08,927 and 11,312 applications have been disposed off in Jammu and Kashmir Provinces respectively while as 40,859 applications in Jammu Province and 39,561 in Kashmir Province are pending disposal.
Replying to a question, raised by Choudhary Zulfkar Ali, during Question Hour in the House, the Minister said Rs. 15.47 crore revenue has been realized in Jammu Province and Rs. 39.64 crore in Kashmir Province by implementation of the Roshni Act.
The Minister said under the Act, commercial potential of the area, local enquiry from local people, auction rate of local area, productivity of land, location of the land and sale deeds have been fixed as the criteria for conferring ownership rights to the occupants of the State Land.
Rather said that utmost care has been taken for determination of the rate to be proposed for adoption under Stamp Duty Act. He said that Roshni Act applies to Kaap and Banjar Qadeem lands also.
Replying to the supplementaries, Rather said that 80,420 cases are pending under the Act due to some lacunae in the fulfillment of the formalities on part of the occupants, where no timeframe can be fixed for disposal of the held-up cases.
Rather said Rs. 25,000 crore revenue targeted under the original Roshni Act was proposed to be deposited in a Special Fund for Power Generation in the State. However, he said, due to amendments in the original Act in the year 2004 and 2006 by the previous Governments, free ownership rights were conferred to the Occupants on a vast chunk of land due to which the targeted revenue under the Scheme could not be achieved.
Regarding variation in rates of the land in different areas, the Minister said that under the provisions of the Act, an applicant can make an appeal to seek redressal of grievances. He said that applicants denied ownership rights on Kaap land can move a representation with the Revenue authorities, adding that possession of the State Land by the applicant up to 1989 as fixed in the original Act was extended to 2004 through an amendment in the Act.
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