District admin Ramban starts cancellation of land transferred under Roshni Act, revenue entries of other encroached state land

Ramban : Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ramban, Nazim Zai Khan today directed the revenue officers of the district to cancel all the mutations of the state land transferred under Roshni Act in the district as he chaired a meeting of the department here.

The meeting also discussed the finalization of the stamp duty rates of the immovable property in the districts.

The meeting was attended by Additional Deputy Commissioner, Ashok Sharma; Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Dhirender Sharma; SDM, Banihal, Zaheer Abbas Bhat; SDM, Gool, Giyas-ud-Din; DFO, Tehsildars and several other officials and officers of concerned department.

The DC directed the ADC, ACR, SDMs and Tehsildars to start the cancellation process immediately and submit details in the prescribed format regarding land transferred under Roshni Act.

He asked them to share details like number of beneficiaries in whose favour the land has been transferred, total number of land whether it is residential or agriculture, whether mutations cancelled or not, and other details.

The DC also asked the Revenue officers to share the details of other state land encroached in their respective jurisdictions. He directed them to expunge all entries of illegally encroached state land from the revenue record.

Meanwhile, the DC also finalized the stamp duty rates of the immovable property including Agriculture, Residential and Commercial land for both rural as well as urban areas of the districts in a separate meeting.