Tehsildar concerned designated authorized officer
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 4: The Revenue Department has issued detailed guidelines for conferment of proprietary rights of their land to the West Pakistani refugees and ownership rights in respect of state land to the displaced persons of 1965.
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Proposals to this effect were approved recently by the Administrative Council headed by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
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For grant of proprietary rights to the West Pakistani refugees, the Revenue Department guidelines stated that they should possess an original copy of revenue record depicting their continuously recorded personal cultivation of State land or an attested copy of receipt of financial assistance received under the Government order of October 2018.
`”In case, the West Pakistani refugee in whose favour the proprietary rights are to be granted has expired, the same shall be transferred as per Hindu Succession Act 1956 read with Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005/ Muslim Personal Law/other inheritance laws as applicable to the legal heirs,” the order issued by Rajeev Ranjan, Secretary to the Government, stated.
As per the order, the West Pakistani displaced persons have to file an application for conferment of proprietary rights before the Tehsildar concerned support by the documents including copy of revenue records depicting continuous recorded personal cultivation of State land (since Khasra Girdawari of Kharif 1971) and document showing that the land allotted to displaced persons has been under their or their legal heirs’ personal cultivation from the date of allotment till date and that entries to that effect have been recorded in the relevant revenue records.
Land ceilings prescribed in the Cabinet Order No. 578-C of 1954 shall apply in all cases to be taken up for consideration but there shall be no fresh allotment under any circumstances, the order said.
It stated that the proprietary rights on the land situated within the limits of Municipal Corporation/Committees shall not be conferred under any circumstances.
The Deputy Commissioner concerned shall submit monthly progress report of the mutations to the Divisional Commissioner/Financial Commissioner Revenue.
As far as the displaced persons of 1965 are concerned, they will have to file an application before the Tehsildar concerned with the documents showing that the land is duly allotted to them and they or their legal heirs have continuously been holding the land from the date of allotment and that the entries to that effect have been duly recorded in the relevant revenue record.
The guidelines of legal heirs will also be applicable to them like the West Pakistani refugees. The land ceiling order of 1954 will also be applicable in their case also. They too won’t get the proprietary rights on the land situated within the limits of the Municipal Corporation/ Committees.
“The Financial Commissioner Revenue shall issue further clarification/guidelines, if any, required for smooth implementation of this policy,” the Revenue Department order read.
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