Kashmiri Pandit Organisations Welcome New Land Laws in Jammu and Kashmir
4 years, 2 months ago

Kashmiri Pandit Organisations Welcome New Land Laws in Jammu and Kashmir

News 18  

Several organisations of Kashmiri Pandits on Thursday welcomed the new land laws in Jammu and Kashmir and said that ownership rights extended to the entire country is a welcome step towards the “one nation, one law and one rule” setup. Prominent Kashmiri Pandit organisations Roots in Kashmir, Jammu Kashmir Vichar Manch and Youth for Panun Kashmir, All Party Migrant Coordination Committee and Kashmiri Pandits Organizations Alliance jointly welcomed the Centre’s decision to allow people from other states to purchase land in Jammu and Kashmir. APMCC chairman Vinood Pandit welcomed the decision and said that this is the “biggest step” of integration of Kashmir with the rest of India through “one land and one nation” decision. Rahul Mahanoori, spokesperson of RIK, said, “It was unfair till now that protectors and martyrs had no right on the land they were ready to sacrifice their lives for.” Netri Bhat, a community activist, said that ownership rights extended to the entire country is a welcome step towards the “one nation, one law and one rule”.

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‘Clear threat’: Kashmiris on India top court upholding removal of autonomy
1 year ago

‘Clear threat’: Kashmiris on India top court upholding removal of autonomy

Al Jazeera  

For the residents, fears of demographic change triggered by Modi government’s 2019 move are slowly becoming a reality. People in Indian-administered Kashmir have reacted with fear and anger to a Supreme Court judgement upholding the government’s decision to remove the partial autonomy of India’s only Muslim-majority region. “There’s now a clear threat to the people in Kashmir,” Irshad Ahmad, a …

Explained | Provision for reservation for Kashmiri migrants, PoJK refugees in J&K Assembly
1 year, 4 months ago

Explained | Provision for reservation for Kashmiri migrants, PoJK refugees in J&K Assembly

The Hindu  

The story so far: Amid uncertainty over a long-pending Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir and while the Supreme Court examines the abrogation of Article 370, the Centre has tabled a Bill to reserve three seats in the Legislative Assembly for Kashmiri migrants and representatives of people displaced from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. To summarise, “the term ‘displaced person’ means …

BJP defends move to reserve seats for Kashmiri Pandits in J&K Assembly
1 year, 5 months ago

BJP defends move to reserve seats for Kashmiri Pandits in J&K Assembly

The Hindu  

The BJP on July 28 defended the move to reserve seats for Kashmiri Pandits and displaced residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the Assembly of the Union Territory. Mufti Muhammad Sayeed was Union Home Minister and Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Chief Minister, when Kashmir saw a mass migration of Pandits,” Tarun Chugh, national general secretary of the BJP, said in a video …

CONTROVERSY | Jammu and Kashmir’s land endowment scheme stokes fears of demographic change
1 year, 5 months ago

CONTROVERSY | Jammu and Kashmir’s land endowment scheme stokes fears of demographic change

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 27, 2023 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ A government programme to dole out land to the homeless in Jammu and Kashmir has reignited the contentious discourse on “demographic change” that has rattled the Kashmiri psyche ever since the erstwhile State lost its special status. Earlier this year, the newly envisaged Affordable Rental Housing Complexes scheme, which …

New laws in Jammu and Kashmir dispossess native farmers of land, property rights
1 year, 11 months ago

New laws in Jammu and Kashmir dispossess native farmers of land, property rights

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 12, 2023 10:20 IST Jamroot Singh and his younger brother Simar Singh were thought to have died in the Second World War. “To boost industrial development in the UT, the Government of Jammu & Kashmir has also notified the J&K Industrial Policy, Jammu & Kashmir Private Industrial Estate Development Policy, and J&K Industrial Land Allotment Policy,” Minister …

34 people from outside Jammu and Kashmir have bought property after abrogation of Article 370
2 years, 9 months ago

34 people from outside Jammu and Kashmir have bought property after abrogation of Article 370

Op India  

On Tuesday, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, informed the lower house of the Parliament that 34 persons from outside Jammu and Kashmir have bought properties in the Union Territory after the abrogation of Article 370 in the state. “As per the information provided by the government of Jammu and Kashmir, 34 persons from outside Jammu and …

34 people from outside J&K have bought properties since Article 370 move: Centre
2 years, 9 months ago

34 people from outside J&K have bought properties since Article 370 move: Centre

Hindustan Times  

Thirty-four people from other parts of India have bought properties in Jammu and Kashmir since the nullification of the Constitution’s Article 370, which stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status in 2019, Union minister Nityanand Rai told Parliament on Tuesday. The Centre last year said two people from outside purchased land in the region. The Centre changed the land rules …

Jammu and Kashmir permits change of land use from agricultural to non-agricultural purposes
3 years ago

Jammu and Kashmir permits change of land use from agricultural to non-agricultural purposes

India TV News  

Highlights Under this, the district collector has been empowered to grant permission to the change in land use. The Administrative Council has approved the change of land use from agricultural to non-agricultural purposes in Jammu and Kashmir, an official spokesman said on Thursday. The AC, which met here under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, approved the regulations framed …

Outsiders bought 7 plots in J&K: Home Ministry
3 years ago

Outsiders bought 7 plots in J&K: Home Ministry

The Hindu  

The Ministry of Home Affairs informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that “seven plots of land” have been purchased by persons from outside the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. In October 2020, the Ministry issued a notification and amended the Land Revenue Act, paving the way for anyone from other parts of the country to buy land in J&K, …

Not All Kashmiri Hindus are Kashmiri Pandits, Rules HC, Legal Challenge Likely
3 years, 3 months ago

Not All Kashmiri Hindus are Kashmiri Pandits, Rules HC, Legal Challenge Likely

News 18  

Not all Kashmiri Hindus are Kashmiri Pandits, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh said in a significant judgment on Tuesday, dismissing a petition that sought to include Kashmiri Hindus in a government recruitment drive. “Kashmiri Pandits is a separately identifiable community distinct from other Hindus residing in the Valley like Rajputs, Brahmins other than Kashmiri Pandits, Scheduled …

Govt working to ensure honourable resettlement of Kashmiri migrants in valley: J&K BJP
3 years, 5 months ago

Govt working to ensure honourable resettlement of Kashmiri migrants in valley: J&K BJP

India TV News  

The Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre is working on ways to ensure honourable resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits in the valley, the Jammu and Kashmir BJP said on Wednesday. The statement comes amid resentment within the Kashmiri Pandit community over Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi suggesting that they were to blame for their failure to return to the valley. However, he …

UN rights experts concerned over India’s changes in Kashmir
3 years, 10 months ago

UN rights experts concerned over India’s changes in Kashmir

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — U.N. human rights experts have urged India to ensure that the rights of people in Kashmir are safeguarded after New Delhi stripped the disputed region’s semi-autonomous status and imposed a slew of administrative changes through new laws. Two experts for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement that the changes …

CPI(M) Leader Tarigami Moves Supreme Court Challenging MHA Order Allowing Outsiders To Buy Land In Jammu & Kashmir
4 years, 1 month ago

CPI(M) Leader Tarigami Moves Supreme Court Challenging MHA Order Allowing Outsiders To Buy Land In Jammu & Kashmir

Live Law  

Veteran CPI leader Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami has moved the Supreme Court challenging the recent order of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs which allows people from across the country to buy land in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, including agricultural land. Union Territory of Jammu andKashmir Reorganisation Fifth Order, 2020, on 26thOctober in pursuance of powers under Section 96 …

Centre's new J&K land rules spark fierce debate, migrants living in UT welcome move
4 years, 2 months ago

Centre's new J&K land rules spark fierce debate, migrants living in UT welcome move

India Today  

The new land rules in Jammu and Kashmir notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs have brought great joy and jubilation among thousands of people from other states who are working in J&K. I would like to express my gratitude to the government for the new land rules," Madan Lal Rai told India Today. And it is not just Madan …

The Hindu Explains | Who can buy or sell land in J&K, and what are the other rules governing it?
4 years, 2 months ago

The Hindu Explains | Who can buy or sell land in J&K, and what are the other rules governing it?

The Hindu  

The story so far : On October 26, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced several amendments to land laws for the Union Territory of Jammu Kashmir, including the Jammu and Kashmir Development Act of 1970, which till now entitled only permanent residents to purchase or sell property in the former State, and the J&K Land Revenue Act, 1996. The MHA …

Kashmir shuts down to protest India’s new land laws
4 years, 2 months ago

Kashmir shuts down to protest India’s new land laws

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — Shops and businesses were shut in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday as separatists challenging Indian rule called for a general strike to denounce new laws that allow any Indians to buy land in the disputed region. Kashmir’s main separatist grouping called the strike to protest new land laws that India enacted on Monday, allowing any …

Kashmiri Pandit organisations welcome new land laws in J&K
4 years, 2 months ago

Kashmiri Pandit organisations welcome new land laws in J&K

The Hindu  

Several organisations of Kashmiri Pandits on Thursday welcomed the new land laws in Jammu and Kashmir and said that ownership rights extended to the entire country is a welcome step towards the “one nation, one law and one rule” setup. Prominent Kashmiri Pandit organisations Roots in Kashmir, Jammu Kashmir Vichar Manch and Youth for Panun Kashmir, All Party Migrant Coordination …

Forced to Fight for Identity, It's No More About Power, Says Omar as Protest against New Land Laws Intensify
4 years, 2 months ago

Forced to Fight for Identity, It's No More About Power, Says Omar as Protest against New Land Laws Intensify

News 18  

Lashing out at the central government over the prevention of PDP workers from protesting against the changes in land laws, former chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah wondered whether the Centre wanted political parties to leave mainstream politics altogether. Do you want us to leave mainstream politics here?” Abdullah asked while reacting to the government’s action of stopping …

'A New Low': As Centre Changes 7 Decades Old Land Laws in J&K, Local Parties, People Feel ‘Betrayed’
4 years, 2 months ago

'A New Low': As Centre Changes 7 Decades Old Land Laws in J&K, Local Parties, People Feel ‘Betrayed’

News 18  

Srinagar: The Centre on Tuesday introduced fresh land laws and repealed some historic ones in Jammu and Kashmir that had given control of small tracks of land to poor and agriculturalists seven decades back. The BJP government has also done away with the historic Big Land Estate Abolition Act, 1950 — under which the Sheikh Abdullah-led government, had distributed and …

Kashmiris decry ‘land grab’ as India enacts new laws
4 years, 2 months ago

Kashmiris decry ‘land grab’ as India enacts new laws

Al Jazeera  

Residents fear laws are aimed at a ‘land grab’ to dilute the Muslim-majority character of the disputed region, now directly under New Delhi’s control. Kashmiris fear the new laws, notified on Tuesday, are aimed at a “land grab” to dilute the Muslim-majority character of the region, whose partial autonomy was scrapped in August 2019, bringing it under New Delhi’s direct …

J&K up for sale: Omar Abdullah slams govt after people from outside J-K allowed to buy land there
4 years, 2 months ago

J&K up for sale: Omar Abdullah slams govt after people from outside J-K allowed to buy land there

India TV News  

National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah has slammed the Centre after it's significant move of notifying new Land Laws for Jammu & Kashmir. Opposing the move, Omar Abdullah said, "J&K’s new Land Laws sans democratic bearings; smacks of cheap politics, deceit. He further called the newly introduced J&K Development Act, which has come into force with immediate effect, as hostile to …

Centre Removes Prohibition On Transfer Of Land In Jammu & Kashmir To People Outside State [Read Notification]
4 years, 2 months ago

Centre Removes Prohibition On Transfer Of Land In Jammu & Kashmir To People Outside State [Read Notification]

Live Law  

The Central Government on Tuesday notified the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Fifth Order, 2020, making it possible for people outside Jammu and Kashmir to buy land in the State.The Jammu and Kashmir Alienation Of Land Act 1995 which prohibited transfer of land in favour of any person who is not a State Subject now stands repealed as a whole.Section 4 …

New Laws Being Introduced in J&K Won't Impact Agricultural Land, Clarifies Governor Manoj Sinha
4 years, 2 months ago

New Laws Being Introduced in J&K Won't Impact Agricultural Land, Clarifies Governor Manoj Sinha

News 18  

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has clarified that the new land laws being introduced in the Union Territory will not impact agricultural land. The clarification comes after union home ministry issued gazette notification repelling four laws that dealt with land related issues and amended the Jammu and Kashmir development act. The laws which have been repelled are the …

New land law allows citizens from outside to buy land in J&K: Report
4 years, 2 months ago

New land law allows citizens from outside to buy land in J&K: Report

Op India  

In a big push for greater integration with India following the annulment of Article 370 in August 2019, the central government has notified a new land law for Jammu and Kashmir. Article 35A allowed JK legislature to define permanent residents and grant them special privileges Earlier, the existence of Article 35A prohibited the purchase of land for citizens from other …

Now, outsiders can buy land in Jammu and Kashmir
4 years, 2 months ago

Now, outsiders can buy land in Jammu and Kashmir

The Hindu  

People as well as investors outside Jammu and Kashmir can now purchase land in the Union Territory as the Centre on Tuesday notified new land laws for the region, ending the exclusive rights of locals over the land granted under now a brogated Article 370. Under the ‘transfer of land for the purpose of promotion of healthcare or education’, the …

People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration vows to fight against new J&K land laws
4 years, 2 months ago

People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration vows to fight against new J&K land laws

India Today  

The newly-formed People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration on Tuesday condemned the central government’s move to grant permission to all Indians to buy property in Jammu and Kashmir and has vowed to fight against it. The amendment to J&K land laws has been condemned by several Kashmiri leaders, including NC vice-president Omar Abdullah and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti. The alliance …

Union Cabinet Approves Adoption of Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act
4 years, 2 months ago

Union Cabinet Approves Adoption of Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act

News 18  

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the adoption of the Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act, 1989, a government spokesperson said. Briefing the press after a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the move will help establish all the three tiers of grassroots-level democracy in Jammu and Kashmir like in other parts of …

Executive order on Jammu and Kashmir domiciles’ land rights coming
4 years, 4 months ago

Executive order on Jammu and Kashmir domiciles’ land rights coming

The Hindu  

The Union government is all set to come out with an executive order to extend protection to land rights of domiciles in Jammu and Kashmir. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said last year that “only government land would be used to establish industries, hospitals and educational institutions.” On August 5 last year, Mr. Shah moved two bills in the Rajya …

Government plans to enact new law to protect land rights of J&K natives
4 years, 5 months ago

Government plans to enact new law to protect land rights of J&K natives

The Hindu  

A new law to protect the land rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir is on the anvil to allay the apprehensions of the natives after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, officials said. The fears of Jammu and Kashmir domicile people about the settlement of outsiders in the UT arose after the government abrogated Article 370 …

India’s residency law in Kashmir amplifies demographic fears
4 years, 5 months ago

India’s residency law in Kashmir amplifies demographic fears

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — For almost a century, no outsider was allowed to buy land and property in Indian-controlled Kashmir. “Given the history of Indian state intervention in Kashmir, there are efforts to destroy the local, distinctive cultural identity of Kashmiris and forcibly assimilate Kashmiri Muslims into a Hindu, Indian polity,” said Saiba Varma, an assistant professor of cultural and medical …

Kashmiri Pandits welcome amended domicile laws
4 years, 7 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits welcome amended domicile laws

The Hindu  

Migrant Kashmiri Pandits on Thursday welcomed the amended domicile laws in Jammu and Kashmir and hoped it would allow the return of Hindus. The Pandits condemned the National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party, Peoples Conference, J&K Peoples Movement, CPI, Congress and J&K Apni Party for opposing the new domicile law. Representatives of various organisations of Kashmiri Pandits, including the Kashmiri Pandit …

J&K Congress leader welcomes amended domicile recruitment rules, advocates restoration of Statehood
4 years, 9 months ago

J&K Congress leader welcomes amended domicile recruitment rules, advocates restoration of Statehood

The Hindu  

A senior Congress leader from Jammu and Kashmir on April 4 welcomed the amendment in the J&K recruitment rules to reserve all government jobs in the Union Territory for the domiciles. The Centre has amended its two-day-old order and reserved all jobs in Jammu and Kashmir for the domiciles of the Union territory — people who have stayed there for …

Kashmir parties oppose Centre’s new domicile law
4 years, 9 months ago

Kashmir parties oppose Centre’s new domicile law

The Hindu  

Jammu& Kashmir’s regional parties on Wednesday criticised and opposed the Centre’s new domicile laws for the Union Territory, introduced eight months after the former State’s special status was revoked on August 5 last year. A party spokesman Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi said several States like Himachal Pradesh have land rights that are adequately safeguarded by domicile laws but no such …

‘Demographic flooding’: India introduces new Kashmir domicile law
4 years, 9 months ago

‘Demographic flooding’: India introduces new Kashmir domicile law

Al Jazeera  

Under the law, those who have resided for a period of 15 years in Kashmir are eligible to become permanent residents. ‘Worry the Kashmiris’ The new law announced by the Ministry of Home Affairs also provided domicile status to the children of central government officials who have served in Indian-administered Kashmir for a total period of 10 years. The government …

Protect our land, Kashmiri migrants urge Indian government
5 years, 2 months ago

Protect our land, Kashmiri migrants urge Indian government

India TV News  

An association for Kashmiri Pandit migrants on Monday urged the central government not to carry out delimitation of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir without taking their views into consideration, as it would be akin to denying them the right to their motherland and life. They have also demanded reservation for local students in Jammu and Kashmir in all …

Security in Kashmir tightened following call for march
5 years, 4 months ago

Security in Kashmir tightened following call for march

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — Authorities intensified patrols Friday in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city after posters appeared calling for a public march to a United Nations office to protest New Delhi’s tightened grip on the disputed region. On Aug. 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist-led government revoked Muslim-majority Kashmir’s decades-old special status guaranteed under Article 370 of India’s Constitution and sent …

Kashmiri Pandits must reimagine the idea of return to Kashmir
5 years, 5 months ago

Kashmiri Pandits must reimagine the idea of return to Kashmir

Al Jazeera  

The return of the Kashmiri Hindu population which fled in the 1990s should not turn into a colonisation of Kashmir. The dream of Kashmiri Pandits’ return to their homeland in the Kashmir Valley has surfaced once again with the Indian government’s stealthy abrogation on August 5 of Article 370, the constitutional provision that has secured the autonomous status of Jammu …

Now, anyone from India can buy property in Jammu and Kashmir
5 years, 5 months ago

Now, anyone from India can buy property in Jammu and Kashmir

India TV News  

Now that the special status of Jammu and Kashmir is set to go, people from anywhere in India can buy property and permanently settle there. According to Article 370, state's residents live under a separate set of laws, including those related to citizenship, ownership of property, and fundamental rights, as compared to other Indians. However, with the special status set …

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