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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why are nomads being evicted from Jammu and Kashmir? -Riyaz Wani

Why are nomads being evicted from Jammu and Kashmir? -Riyaz Wani

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published Published on Dec 1, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 2, 2020

-Down to Earth

Eviction drives come shortly after the J&K High Court declared the Roshni Act, allowed ownership of occupied government land against a fixed am

Nomads of Jammu and Kashmir — mostly from the Gujjar and Bakkarwal communities living in temporary sheds or mud houses in forests and mountains — are being allegedly forcibly evicted by the government. Several videos of hutments being demolished surfaced in November 2020, triggering outrage from several political quarters.

In early November, a video of a hutment being demolished in the hills of Pahalgam went viral on social media. Officials claimed the drive was launched in response to a July 2019 high court order, calling on the administration to recover encroached forest land.

Nomads use Dokas (mud sheds) when they migrate to the hills with their flock in summer.

Among other videos from Pahalgam that went viral on social media, some officials from the forest department, along with the police, were seen removing fences and razing brick houses at the foothills near a famous resort in South Kashmir.

The drive came a few days after the Jammu and Kashmir High Court declared the ‘Roshni Act’ illegal and unconstitutional. The scheme, introduced in 2001, had allowed ownership of government land occupied by some people against a fixed amount.

The scheme envisaged conferment of proprietary rights of around 20.55 lakh kanals (2.56 lakh acres) of land to occupants to earn the targeted Rs 25,000 crore for investment into hydroelectric projects.

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Down to Earth, 1 December, 2020, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/governance/why-are-nomads-being-evicted-from-jammu-and-kashmir--74469?fbclid=IwAR1nUMGg0T4dxQsCaY5hMm5VCNNnpq26Kp1X-yRkJNBCXjdvGytEawkK50o


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