Pulwama admin retrieves land from encroachers

Pulwama: Giving a tough message to encroachers, the District Administration Pulwama today demolished 3 illegal structures raised on kahcharie land and retrieved around 06 Kanals of land on AIIMS approach road.

The encroachers had illegally occupied the land and raised structured since decades. The value of the land so retrieved comes to about Rs.1.5 crore.

This was part of initiative initiated by the the District Administration against encroachers under which scores of kanals of land has been retrieved so for.

The people of the area applauded the District Administration for removal of illegal occupation on land and appealed for further action against all such encroachers.

It is pertinent to mention here that the place where encroachment was removed today is situated near the proposed AIIMS. It is also in place to mention that Supreme court and Hon’ble High court through its various judgements have directed that kahcharie/common land cannot be put into pvt.use and encroachment if any shall be done away with.

The District Administration seeks cooperation of general public in its crusade against encroachments and also warns people to refrain from encroachment of state/kahcharie land.

It has also appealed to such encroachers who has encroached any type of land to voluntarily do away with all such encroachment else action besides retrieval of all such land will be taken by district administration.