28582 acr of State/Khacharai land retrieved till date in Rajouri district.

GNSONLINE RAJOURI
SHYAM SOOD

RAJOURI, JUNE 10:—According to District Administration Rajouri a total of 228657 Kanal (about 28582 Acre) of State/Khacharai land has been retrieved so far in different tehsils in the Rajouri district.
The Administration claimed that the eviction process is going on to retrieve the rest from illegal possession.
It is pertinent to mention here that according to State Revenue Department information (about 10 years ago) over 2 lakh acres of government land has encroached in the 10 districts of Jammu region and Rajouri with 49502 acres topping the list followed by Doda district with 22193 acres.
On Wednesday, Vikas Kundal, Deputy Commissioner chaired a meeting of the officers of the Revenue Department to review its functioning & to ensure efficient and prompt public services delivery.
In the meeting, it was also informed that a total of 5883 Kanal Kahcharai land has also been retrieved by conducting a series of anti-encroachment drives by the Revenue teams across the district.
Threadbare deliberations were also held on the revenue-related matters, including removal of encroachments on Kahcharai and State Land, writing and digitization of Jamabandies, progress under SVAMITVA, redressal of grievances, disposal of court cases, check on illegal ‘conversion of land’, and encroachment alongside the major road projects.
Progress on the retrieval of the Roshini land was also discussed and it was informed that Jamabandies of all 384 villages have been updated by the concerned Tehsildars and inspections are being carried out to ascertain the quality of the same.
“Updating of revenue record was the core work of the Revenue Department and a basic requirement of every household for which coordinated teamwork is key to achieve set targets in a time-bound manner,” said the DC.
He exhorted Tehsildars to further improve the public service delivery system at their respective Tehsil Offices and monitor each chunk of land in their jurisdiction.
He also asked them to activate the field staff to keep close check and vigil on any kind of encroachments.
“The Government is liberal towards the conversion of land, but this illegal conversion has led to a loss to the exchequer, and Revenue Officers should keep a close vigil on this issue,” said the DC.
Vikas Kundal, DC also directed the Revenue Officers to monitor the progress of all major connectivity projects including the up-gradation of NH144A (Jammu-Poonch) and double laning of the Rajouri-Thanamandi road, and directed Tehsildars to ensure that all illegal structures alongside the roads be demolished at the earliest.
The meeting was attended by ADC Rajouri, Sachin Dev Singh; ADC Sunderbani, Vinod Behnal; ADC Kalakote, Krishan Lal; ADC Kotranka, Surinder Mohan Sharma; ADC Nowshera, Sukhdev Singh Samyal, SDM Thanamandi, Vikas Dhar, ACR, Imran Rashid Kataria, and all the Tehsildars.
Vikas Kundal, IAS, DC further directed Tehsildars to launch a massive anti-encroachment drive in all Tehsils of the district to retrieve the State/ Kahcharai land.