Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Sept 2: BJP spokesperson and former MLA Ranbir Singh Pathania has impressed upon the administration for immediate steps to make over the pending claims of the farmers, whose land has been either acquired or requisitioned by the defence authorities.
He was addressing a series of meetings at Rown Domail, Thill, Dhema, Battal and interacting with a series of deputations from various pockets of Udhampur whose land has been either acquired or requisitioned by the defence authorities.
“Land is as good as a mother for a farmer. Whenever these lands were sought to be acquired or requisitioned by the defence authorities, may it be CRPF, BSF or Army, the farmers without any hindrance or any law and order issues, immediately offered their lands. But the lawful right which accrues them by virtue of land acquisition act as well as RAIP Act is still alluding them for decades and decades,” he said.
Pathania alleged that in some cases, famers have been driven out of their lands with permanent establishments of defence authorities standing thereupon but the specified rent/compensation is denied to them on one flimsy excuse or the other. He sought the attention of Lt Governor as well as the Union Ministry of Defence into the fiasco.
Pathania further called for immediate restoration of suspended water lines and broken road channels. He also sought restoration of Ramnagar to Basantgarh road, Panjian to Nokain road, Nakki to Omara road, Dessian to SK Ber road, Plassan to Pinger road and water supplies at Kulwanta, Dehari, Panjian, Sundla, Palnoo, Dargala and Nakki. He was also apprehensive of the new transfer policy of the dispensation whereby teaching staff is sought to be concentrated in the schools in and around the capital cities whereby the far flung schools have been languishing for want of subject teachers.
Among those attended the public meetings, included Kuldeep Singh, Makhan Lal, Mast Ram, Shiv Ram Mandal, Mohan Lal Sharma, Manoj Verma Sarpanch, Surinder Singh Sarpanch, Raman Khajuria Sarpanch, Ashok Kumar, Lochan Singh, Baldev Singh, Pritam Lal, Ved Pal Sharma, Sanjeev Singh, Haji Azeem, Mohan Lal and others.
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