{"id":49564,"date":"2021-12-27T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/government-opens-land-housing-in-jk-to-every-citizen-of-india\/"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:49:42","slug":"government-opens-land-housing-in-jk-to-every-citizen-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49564","title":{"rendered":"Government Opens Land, Housing In J&K To Every Citizen Of India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
J&K Lt Governor Sinha has said a similar event will be held in Srinagar in May next year<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n


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Opposition parties have urged the government to focus on job creation rather than investment or selling land, given J&K is facing a massive unemployment crisis<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Srinagar: <\/strong>The centre and the J&K administration held a real estate summit in Jammu (the first of its kind) to encourage people from across the country to buy land, or a second home, in Jammu and Kashmir.
Outsiders – those not classified as ‘permanent residents’ – had earlier been barred from purchasing or owning land but this was changed after the centre scrapped Article 370 in August 2019, thereby removing special status for J&K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local protesters and regional political parties have accused the centre of “putting J&K up for sale”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organised jointly by the Union Ministry for Housing and Urban Affairs and the J&K administration, the Jammu and Kashmir Real Estate Summit (2021) was held today. Officials said 39 MoUs, or Memorandum of Understandings, were signed; 19 dealt with construction of residential homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling it a “historical transformation in J&K”, the government said it had changed laws to allow external investment in J&K – including the purchase of non-agricultural land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lt Governor Sinha has said a similar event will be held in Srinagar in May next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Under the new J&K Development Act, the term ‘being a permanent resident of the State’ as a criteria has been omitted, paving the way for investors outside J&K to invest,” the agenda for today’s conference said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As a result, any citizen of India can buy non-agriculture land in J&K,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week the J&K administration, headed by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, changed land use laws and allowed re-classifying agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes. The decision triggered strong criticism from regional parties, who said the land would be used to settle non-locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently the centre told Parliament that only seven plots of land had been purchased in J&K following the scrapping of special status. Allowing people from outside J&K to buy land in the UT was one of the major talking points for the BJP and the centre, but so far that doesn’t seem to be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposition parties have urged the government to focus on job creation rather than investment, given J&K is facing a massive unemployment crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a recent Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) unemployment survey, J&K’s unemployment rate is over 21 per cent. The all-India average is 7.8 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, just a few kilometres down the road there were protests against the summit and demands for the restoration of constitutional safeguards and statehood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“J&K is being put up for sale. They are trying to change our demography, history, identity and culture. We don’t accept any such development which changes the character of J&K. They are auctioning J&K,” Sunil Dimple, President of Mission Statehood J&K, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, the J&K administration was forced to suspend its decision to privatise the power sector, including transmission, after 20,000 employees – who alleged government resources were being systematically sold off – went on strike. The Army had to be called in to operate grid stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reported NDTV <\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J&K Lt Governor Sinha has said a similar event will be held in Srinagar in May next year Opposition parties have urged the government to focus on job creation rather than investment or selling land, given J&K is facing a massive unemployment crisis Srinagar: The centre and the J&K administration held a real estate summit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}