PTI
Sep 11, 2013, 09.43PM IST
CHANDIGARH:
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder
Singh Hooda today
announced rehabilitation of landless persons who had migrated from
Pakistan during
partition and were allocated land for a period of 20 years for
cultivation.
"They
are now being given further lease of the land for a period of up to
99 years," Hooda said in the state Assembly here.
With
a view to rehabilitate such original allottees or their legal heirs
who remained in continuous cultivating possession of the land up to
September 24, 1986, the Haryana
Assembly
today
passed the Punjab
Village Common
Lands (Regulation) Haryana Amendment Bill, 2013.
The
provision in the new Bill seeks to give the old lessees, land in
shamlat deh (village common land) on further lease for a period up to
99 years by way of allotment after recovering use and occupation
charges for the period for which they remained in cultivating
possession even after the expiry of the lease period.
Nearly
3,500 Sikh families in the two Haryana districts have been
cultivating about 15,000 acres of land.
After
partition in 1947, migrated landless persons of erstwhile Karnal
district which was later bifurcated into Kaithal and Kurukshetra
districts in 1966, had been allocated uncultivable land for a period
of 20 years under the East Punjab Utilisation of Lands Act, 1949 and
the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1953.
Hooda
said, he had earlier promised to rehabilitate these landless
labourers who have no other means of livelihood.
Thanking
the Chief Minister for providing the extended lease, state finance
minister Harmohinder
Singh Chatha
said,
it was the responsibility of the government to rehabilitate such
persons due to displacement from their land which they have been
cultivating for generations.
The
Assembly also took note of several Sikh farmers in Gujarat who have
raised hue and cry over displacement from their land, which they had
been tilling for several decades and a resolution was also passed to
this effect urging the state government there to ensure they do not
get displaced.
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