Illegal entries of 61787 kanals land expunged in 3 distts

*Eviction notices issued to encroachers
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 2: Illegal entries of 61,787 kanals of State, Khachari, Forest and Common land have been expunged in Udhampur, Srinagar and Samba districts by the respective district administrations.
Udhampur: Deputy Commissioner, Dr Piyush Singla, while chairing a meeting to review the progress of physical eviction on encroached Government land, said with the commitment to show zero tolerance against encroachment of State, Kahcharai, Common and Forest land, a massive anti encroachment has been started in a mission mode across Udhampur.
ACR Udhampur apprised the meeting that as per the directions of Lieutenant Governor, Chief Secretary J&K, Principal Secretary Revenue and Divisional Commissioner, Jammu from time to time all the illegal entries on State land, Kahcharai, Common land and Forest land have been expunged from the revenue records. The entries have been expunged for 44862 kanal state land including 1110 kanal Kahcharai; 306 kanal Common land and 2145 kanal Forest land, he informed.
Giving Tehsil wise details, the meeting was informed that illegal entries have been expunged for 7485 kanal State land, 34 kanal Kahcharai in Tehsil Chenani; 1302 kanal state land, 24 kanal Kahcharai and 68 kanal forest land in Tehsil Panchari; 7142 Kanal state land, 458 kanal Kahcharai and 1744 kanal forest land in Tehsil Majalta; 12634 kanal state land, 507 kanal Kahcharai, 301 kanal Common land in Ramnagar; 5242 kanal State land, 85 kanal Kahcharai, 15 kanal Common land and 332 kanal forest land in Udhampur; 5667 kanal State land, 08 kanal Kahcharai land in Latt- Marothi and 5388 kanal State land in Moungri.
SRINAGAR: The Srinagar district administration has expunged illegal entries for 11,725 kanals of Government and Kacharai land from revenue records of the district and issued notices to encroachers.
The illegal entries have been cancelled and expunged from revenue records of three Tehsils – totalling an area of 11,724 kanals and 5 marlas of land including 10,865 kanals and 2 marlas of Government land and 859 kanals and 3 marlas of Kacharai land in North, Khanyar and Panthachowk tehsils. These illegal entries have been removed from 540 survey numbers in Panthachowk tehsil, 545 in Khanyar tehsil and 1429 in North tehsil.
The Revenue Department of the district has also prepared a list of illegal encroachers and occupants of the encroached land. The list reflects 1923 illegal encroachers on 2782 kanals of Government land and 2661 illegal encroachers on 5342 kanals of Kacharai land in North tehsil, 1352 illegal encroachers on 2224 kanals and 1 marla of Government land in Khanyar tehsil, and 513 illegal encroachers on 516 kanals of Government land and 859 kanals of Kacharai land in Panthachowk tehsil.
Meanwhile, an extensive drive for retrieval of Government and kacharai lands is already underway across the district. In the last one month alone, more than 150 kanals of encroached land has been retrieved in Tehsil Eidgah, Tehsil North, Tehsil Chhanpora and Tehsil Panthachowk.
SAMBA: The Revenue Department has expunged illegal land entries for 5200 kanal in its records as part of the drive launched by the district administration Samba to vacate encroached State, Khachari, Forest Land and common land.
As per the department, revenue team, headed by Sub Divisional Magistrate C P Kotwal, Tehsildar Bari-Brahmana, Qaiser Malik and field functionaries of Revenue Department expunged illegal entries against 5200 Kanal state land falling in villages – Deon, Khada Madana, Katwalta, Pali, Rajpur Kholar, Smailpur, Nagrota, Patli, Birpur, Purmandal, Andandpur, Sangra, Kartholi, Meen Saekar, Badheri and others.