Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 29: Forum of Lease Holders and Occupants of Nazool Lands Joint Action Committee has urged the Government to make a distinction between them and the encroachers while settling cases under Roshni Act.
Commenting over utter failure of the Roshni scheme, a meeting of the Forum was held here today under the leadership of its chairman Inderjeet Khajuria who said that the rates fixed for conferring ownership rights on the lease holders and occupants of government land in urban areas have been fixed irrationally.
While the government conferred ownership rights on the agricultural lands by charging only a nominal rate of Rs 100 per kanal, the rates for urban lands were fixed at very high ranging up to Rs 10 lakh to Rs 30 lakh per kanal, he added.
The illegal occupants of lands through encroachment in the recent past have come forward to get their lands regularized in their favor by paying the fixed rates while those who are under possession of land for several decades under regular lease deed, feel it un justified to be charged high rates, the meet observed and demanded that the rates charged from them should be at par with those charged by the JDA from occupants of government lands in the 25 unauthorized colonies for regularizing ownership of the lands.
Meeting of the Forum was attended by S.S.Pathania, S. Gajan Singh, Iqbal Khullar, Som Nath Sharma and Sunil Dutta.
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