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| EPTWS demands proprietary right, other relief to tenants | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 24- Krishan Lal Gupta Chairman, Evacuee Property Tenants Welfare Society (EPTWS) has expressed great anguish and concern over the high handedness and uncalled for action by the Custodian Department in forcible eviction of Salaria family from the property near Indira Theater, which was in their possession since1947.
Gupta said that our society fully condemns such actions, in which departments like Custodian and Waqafs, under the garb of their powers provided to them by the Evacuee Property Act & Waqaf Act 2001, are forcibly evicting the poor tenants of Jammu from their properties, ie houses, shops, go downs, khokas and lands, which are under their possession from decades together. Evacuee and Waqaf tenants are paying rents and
spending huge amounts from their pockets on construction, repair and maintenance of such properties, but the sword of eviction always hangs on their heads due to corrupt practices in these Departments. Gupta said that to maintain peace and communal harmony in Jammu, ‘we request the Government to make necessary amendments in the Evacuee property Act & Waqaf Act 2001, as some Clauses in these Acts which depict regionalism and communalism which are clearly against the spirit of secularism. The powers given by these Acts to the officers of these departments are generally used against the tenants for making regional or religious discrimination. Therefore, our Society urges the Government to implement the G. D. Wadwah Commission Report.
Banarsi Dass Angral, president of the society, said that there are 1950 custodian houses, 342 shops, 46 Flats, 12 Garages and 12 lakh kanals of agricultural other land under the control of the Custodian Department who is collecting crores of rupees as rent and premium from the people but spending nothing on the maintenance of the dilapidated houses of poor tenants. |
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