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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 26: Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla today said that e-governance is being introduced in the Revenue Department's fully equipped labs in 256 Nayabats in the State.
The Minister, who was replying to the Demand of Grants for the departments under his charge in the Legislative Assembly today, said that settlement operations have been completed in 2040 villages out of 4430 notified villages. He said the Centre has sanctioned Rs. 65 lakhs for construction of modern record rooms in the districts of Udhampur and Kulgam in the first instance.
"Record Rooms will be established in four tehsils in Udhampur district and three tehsils in Kulgam district after which the scheme will be extended to other districts in a phased manner. He said during 2010-11, six new such record rooms, four in Pulwama one in Shopian and one in Samba districts, have been proposed," he maintained.
Bhalla said that under Infrastructure Development Programme, 3000 Patwar Khanas have been constructed so far, each costing Rs. 2.50 lakhs, out of the total 1650 Patwar Khanas, existing in the State. He said Rs. 40 lakhs have been released for construction of 5 Nayabats.
The Minister said that the powers under Land Acquisition Act have been delegated to various officers due to which there has been many folds increase in acquisition process.
"More than 94 per cent of railway acquisition cases have been completed and more than 80 per cent of the land has been handed over to National Highway Authority for four laning of National Highway and BRO for other Roads," Bhalla added.
He said an amount of Rs. 2.65 crore have been proposed for construction of new tehsil offices, particularly in the new districts, during the next financial year. He said Rs. 8.53 crore have been released for construction of Divisional Commissioner Jammu's office at Rail Heal Complex, Jammu. The total cost of the office complex is Rs. 12.74 crore and would be completed by the end of next financial year.
Replying to the queries of Members, the Minister said that 1,10,949 beneficiaries have been provided ownership rights under Roshni Scheme so far and the department has realized a revenue of Rs. 65.01 crore under the scheme.
The Minister said Revenue Department, which also deals with Disaster Management and Natural Calamities also, has provided Rs. 82.81 crore as relief to various disaster affected persons so far during the current year. The department has formulated a package of Rs. 211 crore for approval of the Centre, for relief to the drought affected people under National Calamity Relief Fund norms.
Referring to the assistance being provided to the Kashmir Migrants, Bhalla said that in addition to cash relief and free ration, Government of India has provided funds for improving living condition of the migrants at Jammu. He said that construction of 5242 two room tenements for housing the Jammu based Kashmiri Migrants is apace. Of these, 1024 flats have been completed and allotted to eligible migrants while remaining flats are targeted to be completed upto October 2010. "The implementation of Rs. 1618.40 crore Prime Minister's package for return and rehabilitation of Kashmir migrants, to the Kashmir valley has started and the recruitment agencies have advertized vacancies in various departments, to be filled by jobless Kashmir migrants adding that 13971 un-employed migrant youth have expressed their willingness to serve/work in the valley," he said.
Regarding rehabilitation of PoK displaced persons, the Minister said that the Government has paid Rs 9.05 crore to 843 displaced families of Pak Occupied Kashmir (PoK) as ex-gratia cash compensation in lieu of land deficiency. He said the Wadhwa Committee recommendations for rehabilitation of West Pakistan refugees are under the consideration of the Government.
Referring to the demands for opening of new administrative units, the Minister said that the Government has constituted a fresh committee for the purpose and the Committee has been asked to complete the unfinished task signed to the Billowria Commission within a period of one year.
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