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The Jharkhand cabinet, led by chief minister Hemant Soren, on Wednesday approved two bills, one fixing land records of 1932 as the basis for domicile in the state and another to increase reservation in jobs for socially and economically weaker sections to 77%. The cabinet also approved proposals to send these two bills after ratification from the state assembly to …

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

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 …

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

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 …

Executive order on Jammu and Kashmir domiciles’ land rights coming

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

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 …

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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 …

New domicile rules that followed the termination of the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, which was reorganised into two Union Territories, have brought succour and hope for a segment of its population that had to contend with fragmented citizenship rights for long. The erstwhile State of J&K gained special powers to define its ‘permanent residents’ and restrict land, …