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Punjab Govt Gives Land Rights to Slum Dwellers and Small Land Tillers
News 18Chandigarh: Slum dwellers and specified categories of people, who are in occupation of small parcels of agrarian land through inheritance, will now be eligible for land ownership rights in Punjab, an official on Wednesday. The cabinet, at a meeting chaired led by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday, gave approval to notify the rules of the Punjab Slum Dwellers Act, 2020, for the purpose of giving proprietary rights of land to slum dwellers, thus ensuring basic amenities for them. In a bid to confer proprietary rights upon certain categories of persons in occupation of agrarian land in the state, the cabinet approved 'The Punjab Bhondedar, Butemar, Dohlidar, Insar Miadi, Mukarraridar, Mundhimar, Panahi Qadeem, Saunjidar, or Taraddadkar Bill, 2020'. Some 11,231 people in these categories, currently occupying private land spread across 4,000 acres, will get the proprietary rights after payment of due compensation as per grades to be notified by the government shortly, the spokesperson said.
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