Read the recommendations of strict land laws, and know how to get land for industries now?
A person from outside Uttarakhand cannot buy more than 250 square meters of land in this mountainous state, this rule was there before, but the reality was different. Some vicious people used to buy land in this boundary in the name of several members of the family and then put thousands of square meters of land together and used it till commercial use. But now such practice can be curbed. What are the rules and regulations for the purchase and sale of land in Uttarakhand for people outside the state? The High Power Committee formed regarding this has given 23 major suggestions while submitting its report to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.
In its report, the committee formed to examine the land law in Uttarakhand has emphasized on working like Himachal Pradesh on some points. Along with this, it has been recommended to withdraw many powers given to the District Magistrate in the matters of purchase of land. On Monday, the committee members met Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and submitted the 80-page report to him. The Committee has emphasized the need to set up a task force to monitor land-related matters. Take a look at what are the major recommendations of the committee.
Recommendations for clipping on District Magistrates
- It is mentioned in the report that DMs allow the purchase of agricultural land in the districts for agriculture and other industrial use, but there have been many cases in which the land was given for agriculture but resorts and bungalows were built!
- The committee has also recommended to withdraw this right from the DM, under which he can allow the purchase of land for micro, small and medium category industries.
- The Committee recommends that such industries should be allowed to purchase land according to their minimum requirement only after the government’s green signal.
How to get land for industries now?
It is recommended that land should be given to industries only in the vacant plots of Industrial Area-SIDCUL.
The government should allow projects like star hotels, multi-specialty hospitals to buy land only after getting the essential certificate on the lines of Himachal Pradesh.
Right now the arrangement is that in many categories like tourism, agriculture, industries, firms can be given permission to buy more than 12.5 acres of land. The Committee has recommended that the essential certificate should be made the basis, that is, the land should be given at least as per the actual requirement of the industry.
Tips to make the whole process transparent
- The purchase and sale of lands should be transparent and all records should be available online in the public domain.
- Government boards should be installed on all the vacant government land.
- The committee also talked about starting land settlement in its report.
- People from outside the state are now allowed to buy 250 square meters of land. In this arrangement, the Committee has recommended that the Aadhar card of the person taking the land and his family be linked with the records of the Revenue
- Department.
CM Dhami said, will implement
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami says that his government will implement the recommendations given in the land law. It is worth mentioning that after assuming the chair in July last year, Chief Minister Dhami had talked about the formation of a high power committee on land law. The debate on the need for strict land laws also arose because then BJP leader Ajendra Ajay had written a letter saying that systematic land jihad was going on in the mountain.
It is worth mentioning that Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri was the first to bring the land law in the state while being the Chief Minister, under which many provisions were made to stop the random purchase and sale of land. There was a provision in these that any person from outside the state can buy only two hundred and fifty square meters of land for his use in Uttarakhand.
