The land allotment to legendary former Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan in Kathua district figured within the J-Okay Meeting Saturday, with some legislators questioning the federal government’s resolution.
Muralitharan’s Cevlon Drinks was amongst various huge industrial homes allotted land in Kathua’s Bhagthali Industrial Property final 12 months, percolating investments over Rs 21,000 crore on the bottom.
Sources mentioned that Cevlon Drinks has been allotted 206 kanals (25.75 acres) of land to arrange a Rs 1,600-crore aluminium cans manufacturing and drinks filling unit in Kathua. The lease deed was executed with the division in June final 12 months.
With out naming Muralitharan, CPI(M) legislator M Y Tarigami, throughout the Query Hour, identified that “a Sri Lankan cricketer has been allotted land in J&Okay. How has this allotment been made?’’
Questioning how a non-Indian cricketer was allotted land in J-Okay, Congress MLA G A Mir mentioned, “It is a critical problem and must be regarded into.’’
Responding to the legislators’ issues, Agriculture Minister Javed Ahmad Dar mentioned that the federal government has no info {that a} former Sri Lankan cricketer was supplied land “freed from price” within the UT to arrange an industrial unit and that he would look into it.
“It is a matter associated to the income division. We would not have any info, and we’ll look into it to know the details,” he mentioned.
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Earlier, in written reply to a query by Tarigami, the Minister for Well being & Medical Training, College Training, Larger Training and Social Welfare Departments, Sakeen Masood (Itoo) had mentioned that the landless households are being supplied 5 marlas (1,355 sq ft) of land for the development of residential homes underneath Prime Minister Awas Yojna (PMAY).
Mentioning that the land is supplied topic to verification by the Income Division, she mentioned that the prolonged households of the landless background are prone to be thought of for land allotment topic to eligibility and pointers of the scheme being issued infrequently.
As Tarigami contested the minister’s reply that the compensation to the individuals whose land is underneath acquisition is decided as per provisions of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 which is underneath implementation in J-Okay, BJP MLA referred to a court docket ruling that compensation must be paid even to individuals occupying state land.
To this, Mir mentioned that to talk of state land, individuals have been divested of even their “possession’’ land with none compensation throughout the previous few years.
With PTI inputs
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