160 kanals Govt land retrieved

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, June,7: The authorities in district Rajouri have retrieved 160 kanals and 10 marlas of encroached State land in Siot and Berripattan area.
A team comprising of Tehsildar Siot, Dhruv Gupta, police personnel and officers of Revenue Department carried out the anti-encroachment drive at villages Dhar and Kangri in Tehsil Berripattan and village Siot and Channi Prat in Tehsil Siot.
The District Administration Rajouri has retrieved 110 Kanal and 10 marlas Govt land in Tehsil Berripattan and 50 Kanal in Tehsil Siot.
The anti-encroachment drive was conducted on the directions of District Development Commissioner Rajouri Mohammad Aijaz Asad and it was also decided to retrieve the encroached land across the district.
DDC said that the comprehensive mapping of all the encroached land have already been done and Tehsildar have been directed to conduct extensive drives for the retrieval of the State, Kacharai, Govt departments, Forest and Panchayat lands.