- ‘Anti-encroachment Drive to be intensified’
BUDGAM: The District Development Commissioner Budgam, Mir Altaf Ahmad today reiterated the Government’s resolve to continue the anti-encroachment drive. He said adding every inch of state land under the illegal occupation of encroachers would be retrieved. Speaking at a meeting of the officers of Revenue Department, Mir Altaf said about 5148 kanals of Kahcharai land has been retrieved from the encroachers in district Budgam upto October this year.
The meeting was convened to review the progress of ongoing anti- encroachment drive in various areas of the district. He said the state land is primarily public property which is to be utilized exclusively for the purpose of public services and raising public assets. The DDC directed the Revenue officers to further intensify the anti-encroachment drive in their respective areas of jurisdiction so that every inch of encroached state land is retrieved in the district.
He also called for immediate removal of encroachments from the embankments of rivers, nallahs and irrigation streams. He said the best performing officers and field functionaries on this count shall be rewarded suitably and the same would be also reflected in their Annual Performance Reports (APRs).