Ahead of Delhi Elections next year, the union cabinet has given a go-ahead to a proposal that would grant ownership rights to people having property in unregulated colonies. It is predicted to benefit around 40-50 lakh people.
Crux of the Matter
This proposal would affect around 1,797 identified unauthorized colonies spread over 175 square km, mostly inhabited by people belonging to lower income groups.
Hardeep Singh Puri, Union minister, said that the bill would be executed swiftly in the Winter Session of Parliament starting November 18.
He also accused Arvind Kejrival of trying to delay the decision.
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Land distribution has been part of India’s state policy from the very beginning. Independent India’s most revolutionary land policy was perhaps the abolition of the Zamindari system (feudal landholding practices). Land-reform policy in India had two specific objectives: “The first is to remove such impediments to increase in agricultural production as arise from the agrarian structure inherited from the past. The second objective, which is closely related to the first, is to eliminate all elements of exploitation and social injustice within the agrarian system, to provide security for the tiller of soil and assure equality of status and opportunity to all sections of the rural population.” More Info
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