Saturday, 10 July 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The members of Lok Panchayat Jaunsar Bawar submitted a memorandum to the Dehradun district magistrate Ashish Kumar Srivastava to restrict land transactions by non-tribal people in the Jaunsar Bawar region.
According to the member of Lok Panchayat, Bharat Chauhan, many people who do not belong to Jaunsar Bawar are encroaching on the land of poor and weak locals of Jaunsar and occupying them illegally. He said that as per the revenue records, many non-tribal people settled in Jaunsar in connivance with the revenue department during the settlement process in the year 1983-84.
Many cases of land disputes are even pending for settlement in the court of sub divisional magistrate of Kalsi, Chakrata, stated Chauhan. He said that the fundamental rights of the locals of the Jaunsari community who belong to the category of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST) are being affected due to excessive interference of non-tribal people who do not belong to Jaunsar Bawar. The members of Lok Panchayat appealed to the DM to free the land which has been allegedly occupied by the outsiders illegally.
They also requested the DM to revoke all the leases of the lands and asked him to direct the SDM to not allow any lease on the lands in the area.
