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CM Since the 1960s, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) has ordered land ownership rights to thousands of refugee families rehabilitated in the state.
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday ordered East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to give land ownership rights to thousands of refugee families rehabilitated in the state since the 1960s. According to an official statement, Chief Minister Yogi has described the move not only an administrative decision, but a national responsibility and the work of social justice and humanity. Presiding over a meeting, CM Yogi Adityanath directed the District Magistrates to ensure time -bound action to resolve long pending legal and revenue issues, due to which more than 10,000 refugee families are being prevented from getting the right ownership of the land allotted to more than 10,000 refugee families in Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bijnor and Rampur.
Families coming between 1960 and 1975 will get benefit
The Chief Minister said that these people have tolerated displacement and difficulty for more than six decades. This initiative is not only about land transfer, it is about accepting their struggle and restoring respect. According to officials, between 1960 and 1975 thousands of families migrated from East Pakistan to Uttar Pradesh and settled in several villages of four districts in the state. Although many families were allocated agricultural land through transit camps in the early years, most families were never owned by land due to legal discrepancies, discrepancies and bureaucratic obstacles in records. Many of these cases involve the record of land in the ownership of the Forest Department, pending the nomination process, or lack of real possession, causing uncertainty for the residents.
Despite having home and farm, there is no name in records
It is said that in some villages, refugees built permanent houses and cultivated for decades, but their names are still not recorded in the official land records. Others originally settled in others have either gone or their existence has ended, causing the claims to become complicated. Highlighting the need for legal clarity, Yogi Adityanath said that now under the canceled government grant act, earlier allocations should be reviewed in the current legal context so that new avenues of the solution can be discovered. He said that due to the cancellation of law in 2018, many such cases are hanging in legal balance. Adityanath said that in cases where land ownership cannot be regularized due to technical reasons, suitable alternative land should be identified. He said that it is about ensuring respectable life for those who had been waiting for recognition as a lawful citizen for a long time.
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