Old land laws system of Jammu & Kashmir was maybe appropriate when introduced but was essentially meant to serve a rural & agrarian economy. It became obsolete & when looked at as a whole suffered from redundancies & were regressive & anti-people.
So there was a need to clean the system & give a set of simple land laws to prevent unnecessary litigation & discretionary interpretation as we know any such interpretation leaves scope for vested interests to operate. In this background 11 laws have been repealed: Rohit Kansal, Principal Secy, J&K