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| Kangrail villagers protest against demolition drive | | Forcible land acquisition for Ring Road Jammu | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 21: A protest was held by villagers of Kangrail in Tehsil Bhalwal of Jammu district against what they call forcible land acquisition for Jammu Ring Road on Friday. The villagers allege that Government has neither issued any eviction notice to the affected villagers nor has any compensation been paid to the farmers whose land and residential houses are coming under the alignment of proposed highway.
Details available with Early Times reveal that a huge contingent for police and revenue department officials lead by Naib Tehsildar of Bhalwal came to village Bhalwal for demolition of some residential houses that come under alignment of proposed Semi Ring Road Jammu. As the officials started demolition of residential house of one Sham Lal S/O Late Thoru Ram, his wife raised an alarm which caught the attention of local villagers. The villagers consisting of scores of men , women and children came to the spot and raised slogans against the officials of Revenue department and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The protest continued for many hours near Jammu Akhnoor road and finally the demolition squad had to leave the spot.
" We have neither been served any notice nor have the authorities paid us any compensation. Our land is being forcibly occupied. The market rate in our village is around Rs 30 lakhs to Rs 40 lakhs per kanal, while as we are being asked to accept Rs 1.70 lakhs per kanal plus 15 % Jabirana. In total we can get mere 1.80 lakhs / kanal which is injustice with us. The land stamp rate in our village is very less. It is 20 times less than market rate. We will resist this move and not allow authorities to snatch our livelihood. We appeal Governor and Chief Secretary to come to our rescue "said Rajiv Sharma an affected farmer of the area while talking to Early Times.
As reported already authorities are doing open discrimination with farmers of Jammu district vis a vis payment of compensation. The officials at the helm of affairs are forcibly trying to snatch agricultural land of farmers and in return are providing them very meager amount as compensation. The stamp rate in Jammu district especially in the areas wherefrom Ring Road has to pass varies between Rs 75,000 to Rs 5 lakhs which is 20 to 50 times less than the market rate.
National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is paying mere Rs 1.80 lakhs per kanal to farmers affected by Semi Ring Road in Bansultan village of R S Pura while as market rate of land in the same village varies between Rs 50 to 60 lakhs per kanal. Similarly in Goda Singhu village the stamp rate is Rs 3.20 lakhs per kanal while as market rate is between 80 lakhs to 1 crores per kanal as the land has commercial value in view of its location on Akhnoor Jammu highway. |
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