Lucknow
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given great relief to the families settled in various districts of UP by displacing East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in a high -level meeting held on Monday. The Chief Minister said that these people should be given right to land ownership.
The Chief Minister said that it is not only a matter of giving land paper, but it is time to accept the suffering and struggle of thousands of families, who displaced from the other side of the borders and took refuge in India and have counted the day in the hope of rehabilitation for the last several decades. He instructed the officials to see the issue sensitively and ensure respectable behavior with the affected families.
When and how this family settled
After partition, thousands of Hindu families from East Pakistan, especially between 1960 and 1975, came to India forcibly displaced. A large number of these were settled in Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bijnor and Rampur districts of UP. In the initial stages, they were placed on temporary locations through transit camps and then land was allotted in various villages. But even after years, most of these families could not become legitimate landlords.
What were the problems coming
– These people were given land, but the paper remained incomplete.
– In many cases the land was registered in the name of the forest department.
– The process of nomination remained pending.
– Some people have possession but not valid documents, while in some villages, such families are no longer present in the names.
– Some families captured without a legal process, which created a situation of dispute.
Officials said that due to all these circumstances, thousands of families are still cultivating that land, but their names have not been recorded in the revenue records. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath told the officials that this subject is not only a legal or administrative problem, but national responsibility and human responsibility. He directed that where the land was given under the Government Grant Act in the east, options should be prepared according to the current legal structure, as this law has been canceled in 2018. The Chief Minister also told the officials that do not only see this entire issue as a rehabilitation scheme, but it is a matter of social justice, humanity and nationalism.