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| Land owners hamper work on JU South Campus | | Seek alternate land as promised | | KUNAL SHRIVATSA & SANJAY PATHAK
Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 20: Annoyed over delay in allotment of alternate land by the administration in lieu of their cultivable land which they voluntarily gave up in order to make way for the establishment of Jammu University's (JU's) South Campus at Village Janglote near Kathua, the farmers, who handed over their property, have not allowed the construction work of JU's offsite campus for about three months.
Sources informed Early Times that as many as 25 families of Village Janglote belonging to farming community are furious over non-allotment of alternate land as promised by the administration. To press their demand for alternate land, the owners are not allowing the construction work to take place for nearly three months now.
"The 25 families had given their agricultural land worth crores of rupees to facilitate the opening of JU's offsite campus at Village Janglote but the innocent farmers are yet to be compensated as agreed by the authorities," said sources.
"Now, when they are being denied their legitimate right, the farmers left with no other option but to stage protest in the form of disallowing construction work on JU's offsite campus…At the time of donating their cultivable lands, the administration had assured the farmers to allot alternate land along Sahar Khud near Kalibari, Kathua but even after passage of four years the land owners from Janglote have not been given possession of the land with due demarcation," they added.
Sources said that due to the ongoing agitation of farmers, the Union Minister of State (MoS) in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Dr Jitendra Singh, who was scheduled to inaugurate the administrative block of JU's South Campus, cancelled his visit to the site at the last moment to avoid any kind of unruly scenes even though heavy deployment of police was made in and around Village Janglote.
The Union Minister, though, preferred to alter his itinerary in order to keep himself away from any controversy, however, visited the JU's make-shift campus being operational from a rented accommodation at Kalibari where while addressing a gathering, he advocated that the farmers whose land was taken should adequately be compensated.
"MoS in PMO skipped the scheduled programme of inaugurating the administrative block of JU campus at Janglote as he may have sensed the mood of the agitating farmers who yesterday had told the administration in clear terms that the inauguration ceremony will not be allowed at any cost even as Tehsildar, Kathua Avtar Singh and SHO Kathua, Sanjeev Slathia persuaded hard with the protesters to call of their stir but to no avail," said sources.
Sources further said that the dministration's failure to hand over the possession rights of alternate land along Sahar Khud to the farmers is actually due to the clout of land grabbers, who under the garb of so called property dealers, have set their eyes on that particular piece of land which was to be transferred to the uprooted farmers of Janglote.
It is pertinent to mention here that the South Campus of JU is being established at Village Janglote on 305 Kanlas of land of which only about 100 Kanals is state land. |
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