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23/12/22 20:49 PM IST

Jammu and Kashmir new land laws end past property leases

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  • The Jammu and Kashmir administration’s new land laws has ended the owners right to hold on to properties on lease in the Union Territory (U.T.) and plans to outsource these properties afresh online.
New land Reforms 2022
  • The J&K government has notified Land Grant Rules-2022 which state that all the outgoing lessees, except subsisting/expired leases for residential purposes, shall immediately handover the possession of the land taken on lease to the government, failing which the outgoing lessee shall be evicted.
  • The erstwhile J&K Land Grants Rules 1960 under which land was granted on lease for 99 years and had the provision of extension as well no more exists, post 5 August 2019, when J&K Reorganisation Act 2019 was enacted.
  • Now, the government has decided to hold the auction online for the leased land.
  • This means the hundreds of business establishments, hotels and shopping complexes in Jammu and Kashmir might have to be closed down, since most of these commercial establishments have sprung up on the leased land.
  • The new land law also states that land can also be provided to ex-servicemen, war widows, families of deprived categories, migrant workers, building and construction workers and sufferers of natural calamities.
  • Law states that the outgoing lessees will be paid for any structure built on the land, ‘provided the lessee has not violated any of the conditions of the lease’.
Criticism
  • Few Political Parties have argued that the newly-introduced Land Grant Rules-2022 will push six to seven lakh people into the unemployment bracket and will only pave the way for millionaires and capitalists from outside to buy hotels and commercial establishments in J&K.
  • The fresh Land Grant Rules-2022 will end the rights of present owners and sell it at market price. No local businessman has purchasing power compared to millionaires and billionaires from the rest of the country.
  • The present owners with bank loans will be forced to sell their houses to repay their loans.
  • The current bank borrowing from the J&K Bank stands at ₹60,000 crore, an indicator of the loans raised by locals to survive the turbulent times since 1990s.
Source- The Hindu

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