Excelsior Correspondent
RS PURA, Nov 17: While projecting the long pending and genuine grievances of local land allottees from this border belt, mostly from SC community, Provincial vice president of Mahila wing of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Preeti Bhagat and sought intervention of Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha into the matter.
Addressing a press conference here in presence of prominent members of All Local Allottees Land Reforms Front, Preeti Bhagat strongly raised chronic issues of most neglected community. She urged the Administration to pay immediate attention towards the mass deprivation and discrimination with this community in particular and other local land allottees in general, who have been still lacking ownership rights, pertaining to land allotted to them for the last over 75 years.
The Front members also expressed their resentment and regret that despite denial of land ownership rights to such people, local allottees can not even transfer their land like PoJK DPs who were given this privilege under section 3A of Jammu & Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Amendment Act of 1978. The facilities extended to other sections of the society in respect of study loan, bank loan and even agriculture crop insurance as well as crop relief are being categorically not given to the said local allottees, they regretted.
Bhagat said these people have been kept out of section 3A of the above said Act. To make India progress, all sections of the society must be taken along by amending the above said Act. They also be given the right to transfer their right of occupancy tenancy by sale, mortgage or gift as has been done for PoJK DPs, she asserted.
She also expressed apprehension that 25 lakh voters which are being manipulated from other states of the country will be adjusted/ accommodated in such lands which lacks ownership rights.
Prominent members of the Front who were present included DC Kundal, Ram Lal, Girdhari Lal, Babu Ram, Som Nath and others.
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