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Category: ENVIRONMENT

Published: 05 March 2020

KUPWARA: District Administration Kupwara has expunged illegal entries against 38,505 Kanals of Kacharie land across 377 estates of the district as part of a comprehensive exercise of audit and inspection of Revenue Records conducted under the directions of Financial Commissioner Revenue.  This was stated in a statement issued by District Administration, here today.

The statement reads that the exercise for detailed    inspection   of the entire revenue record was taken up along with preparation of new Jamabandies as part of Digital India Land Record Modernization Programme (DILRMP). The work  of  inspection of all the Revenue  Record specifically   illegal entries  recorded  against Kacharie land  was taken up to remove  all such entries  and restore the common lands  to their original  status.

The exercise that commenced  in July  last year  has been completed in a time  bound  manner and  as a result  the entire  patch of Kachaire  land across 16  Tehsils of the District  is now  free from all encumbrances as per Revenue Records and certificate to that  effect  has been furnished  by the District Administration  to the office of Financial Commissioner Revenue.

The statement further reads that 4 Sub Registrar offices have been setup in the District since the transition of erstwhile State of J&K into Union Territory.  In order to streamline activities under DILRMP with registration process, all the Sub-registrars have been asked to entertain only updated land record extracts for the purpose.  This essentially with all new Jamabandies compiled from the year 2014 onwards with no illegal entries recorded against kancharie land have now been put to use in the District for the purpose of registration.

Meanwhile, an extensive drive for physical retrieval of Government and Kahcharai Lands   is under process simultaneously whereby more than 100 Kanals of land has been retrieved in the district in last 2 months.   Apart from utilization of such lands for proposed Government buildings, plans have been formulated for plantations through convergent efforts of Agriculture, Horticulture, Floriculture and Social Forestry Departments.

All the SDMs and Tehsildars  have been issued  directions  to conduct  inspection of  Revenue Records  including Jamabandi  and Girdwari  on a routine  basis  for  its  upkeep and maintenance and Review meetings  are being  conducted  on monthly basis to monitor  the exercise closely.