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Ruling National Conference (NC) legislator Tanvir Sadiq connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) said helium has moved a backstage member’s Bill earlier the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and sought the restoration and extortion of the archetypal Land Grants Act arsenic it existed anterior to the changes introduced successful 2022.
“The determination is intended to safeguard the rights of existing leaseholders, support section businesses and guarantee that authorities onshore continues to service the radical of Jammu and Kashmir alternatively than speculative oregon non-local interests. Any alteration successful argumentation indispensable travel done the elected Assembly, not done unilateral administrative orders,” MLA Sadiq said.
He said the Bill besides sought to support lawful occupants from eviction, guarantee transparent renewals, and prioritize onshore grants for residents, cooperatives and local entrepreneurs.
The projected Bill is titled arsenic “The Jammu and Kashmir Land Grants (Restoration and Protection) Bill, 2025”. It aims astatine repealing the Land Grant Rules 2022 notified during the Lieutenant Governor’s regularisation successful J&K. Under the caller rules, those occupants whose leases person ended volition not beryllium renewed but to enactment a caller auction. It besides allows the outsiders to enactment successful the auction for the archetypal clip successful J&K. The eviction nether the Land Grants Rules 2022 is apt to interaction fashionable tourer destination of Gulmarg, wherever astir 50 leases of hotels and huts person ended by 2018.
“The Bill aims to revive the 1960 model that governed leases and grants of authorities onshore crossed the Union Territory,” Mr. Sadiq said.
The NC’s Bill came a time aft Opposition People Democratic Party (PDP) besides introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Land Rights and Regularisation Bill, which projected to “regularise onshore holdings of individuals, families, and institutions who person been successful continuous possession of onshore for implicit 30 years, thereby securing ownership rights, preventing arbitrary evictions, and ensuring societal and economical stableness crossed Jammu and Kashmir.”
