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Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025) said her enactment has submitted the Jammu and Kashmir Land Rights and Regularisation Bill, 2025, for treatment successful the forthcoming league of the Legislative Assembly.
The projected legislation, besides termed Anti-bulldozer Bill, aims to regularise onshore holdings of individuals, families and institutions who person been successful continuous possession of these lands for implicit 30 years. This volition unafraid ownership rights, forestall arbitrary evictions, and guarantee societal and economical stableness crossed Jammu and Kashmir, Ms. Mehbooba told reporters here.
Highlighting the ongoing onshore and lease situation successful Gulmarg and different parts of Kashmir, the erstwhile Chief Minister said that the Land Grant Rules, 2022, person ended the renewal of aged leases, putting dozens of hotels operating connected expired leases astatine the hazard of eviction oregon authorities takeover done auction.
Nearly 60 hotels successful Gulmarg, including practice establishments specified arsenic Nedous and Highlands Park, person received takeover notices from the Gulmarg Development Authority (GDA), she said.
Hoteliers who person invested heavy present look terrible fiscal distress, ineligible uncertainty and threats to livelihoods, the PDP president said.
She besides said that the lack of a wide authorities argumentation connected lease renewal and onshore regularisation has created heavy uncertainty, hurting tourism, section employment and capitalist assurance successful Kashmir's hospitality sector.
Despite Chief Minister Omar Abdullah repeatedly promising to support people's onshore rights, nary factual argumentation oregon ineligible basal has yet been adopted to safeguard them successful courts, Ms. Mehbooba said.
She said that portion the PDP MLAs person submitted the Bill to the Assembly Secretariat, the authorities should either follow and instrumentality it oregon bring a authorities of its ain that volition beryllium duly supported by her party.
A ample fig of hotels and concern establishments successful Jammu and Kashmir are presently operating connected authorities lands with leases moving implicit varied periods of time, portion immense tracts of onshore person been occupied for decades by farmers with nary onshore ownership.
In 2001, the Jammu and Kashmir State Land (Vesting of Ownership to Occupants) Act — commonly known arsenic Roshni Act — was promulgated during the main ministership of Farooq Abdullah.
The instrumentality envisaged granting ownership of authorities lands to unauthorised occupants of those lands up connected outgo of a sum determined by the government.
However, the instrumentality was struck down by the precocious tribunal successful 2020.
After the reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir into 2 Union Territories, the authorities did not renew the lease of respective businesses, including hotels, portion a thrust was launched successful 2022 to evict unauthorised occupants.
The PDP backstage member's measure aims to support the interests of these onshore occupants.
