Udham Singh Nagar: The district administration has taken a big action in Kichha of Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand and has taken possession of 207 acres of ceiling land worth about 2 billion rupees with the help of the revenue department and police force.
What is the whole matter?
On the orders of District Magistrate Uday Raj Singh, the team of the Revenue Department under the leadership of Deputy District Magistrate Kaustubh Mishra has taken action to take possession of 207 acres of ceiling land of Bakhpur and other villages under Kichha tehsil area.
To take possession of this land, the revenue team and police force under the leadership of Sub-District Magistrate Kaustubh Mishra, Tehsildar Girish Tripathi, Police Circle Officer Bahadur Singh Chauhan had camped at Calcutta Chowki since this morning. Where the Sub-District Magistrate gave directions to the police and administration team by briefing. After this, the administration has taken possession by demarcating the boundaries at three places.
Deputy District Magistrate Kaustubh Mishra said that in 1982, a case regarding ceiling land in various villages of Kichha tehsil was settled by the Hon’ble High Court Allahabad. In which the ceiling land was separated and the remaining land was given to the owner. After the formation of the state, the transfer of land could not be done in favor of the state government.
As per the orders of various courts, the ceiling land has been taken into possession by District Magistrate Uday Raj Singh. He said that 207 acres of land has been taken into possession. Now the district administration will use it for government schemes. Earlier also, Deputy District Magistrate Kaustubh Mishra had also taken possession of 70 acres of land of Dhadha village.
Let us tell you that the Uttarakhand government is continuously running a campaign to free the land from encroachment, under which illegal encroachments have been removed on many lands and legal action has been taken by freeing those lands. The government’s goal is to remove as many illegal encroachments as possible, so that government lands can be freed from encroachment. This action of the government has made the land mafia lose their sleep.
