Jammu, April 6: Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday said that the anti encroachment drive will be resumed soon and that no influential prople will be spared who have encroached upon the state land.
While speaking at an event at Jammu University on Wednesday evening, Mr Sinha said that the government is currently in the process of framing a policy on the directions of the High Court, which would take care of the needs of about 200,000 disadvantaged and poor people of Jammu and Kashmir, who don’t have shelter and food to eat, whose livelihood depends on the state land they use.
He further said that no person, who has encroached upon the state land, will be spared in the upcoming campaign which will be aimed at retrieving the entire state land from its occupiers.
“Some people who have been soared so far think that the drive is over. I want to make it clear that the driver is not over, it will resume soon. No one will be spared, especially those who have used their influence and who have occupied state land”, he said, without elaborating on how the new policy would look like with regard to different categories of land and the quantum and the nature of regularisation for small land holders.
The Lieutenant Governor also said that so far about 6 lakh kanals of state land has been retrieved from various areas of Jammu and Kashmir during the previous anti encroachment drive.
