The revenue department has expunged illegal land entries for 5200 Kanal in its records as part of the drive launched by the district administration Samba to vacate encroached state, Khachari, Forest Land and common land.
As per the department, revenue team, headed by Sub Divisional Magistrate C P Kotwal, Tehsildar Bari- Bari Bari-Brahmana, Qaiser Malik and field functionaries of revenue Dept expunged illegal entries against 5200 Kanal state land. The revenue records of villages – Deon, Khada Madana, Katwalta, Pali, Rajpur Kholar, Smailpur, Nagrota, Patli, Birpur, Purmandal, Andandpur, Sangra, Kartholi, Meen Saekar, Badheri and others were verified and all the illegal entries were expunged, informed Tehsildar Bari-Brahamana.
Meanwhile, Deputy commissioner convened a meeting of revenue officers and directed to intensify the drive. Tehsildars and revenue field staff was directed to take suo-moto action with regard to removing all the illegal entries in a time bound manner. Directions were issued to exercise detailed enquiry regarding fraudulent entries in revenue records.
The meeting was attended by Additional Deputy Commissioner, Vikas Gupta; Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Kulbhushan Khajuria; Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Ghagwal Ramkesh Sharma; Sub-Divisional Magistrate Vijaypur, CP Kotwal; Tehsildars of district Samba and officials of revenue department.
No: PR/DDI/J/19/998/