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Will reenact Roshni Act in assembly if voted to power in JK: Ghulam Nabi Azad

Will reenact Roshni Act in assembly if voted to power in JK: Ghulam Nabi Azad
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Srinagar, Feb 23 (PTI) Amidst the anti-encroachment drive in Jammu and Kashmir to retrieve State land, DPAP chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday said if his party is elected to power, it will bring back the Roshni Act under which the ownership rights were given to the occupants.

The act was enacted in 2001 by the National Conference government, and was repealed in November 2018 by then governor Satya Pal Malik.

Azad told reporters in Anantnag district of south Kashmir that the anti-encroachment drive to retrieve land given to people under the act should be stopped. “If we form the government, then we will implement the Roshni scheme once again.”

The Roshni Act, officially known as Jammu and Kashmir State Land (Vesting of Ownership to Occupants) Act, 2001, was enacted by the Farooq Abdullah government. The law granted the ownership of encroached land to the occupants to raise funds for different power projects of the government.

The law was modified during Azad’s chief ministerial tenure from 2005-2008.


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