ROSHNIACT
- November 24, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Government Schemes
Context: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Monday published on its website the list of beneficiaries under the Roshni Act.
Concept:
- The Roshni Act envisaged the transfer of ownership rights of state land to its occupants, subject to the payment of a cost, as determined by the government.
- It set 1990 as the cutoff for encroachment on state land.
- The government’s target was to earn Rs 25,000 crore by transferring 20 lakh kanals (one-eighth of an acre) of state land to existing occupants against payment at market rates.
- The government said the revenue generated would be spent on commissioning hydroelectric power projects, hence the name “Roshni”.
Amendments
- In 2005 the government relaxed the cutoff year to 2004.
- Subsequently with new govt coming to power the cutoff was relaxed further to 2007.
- The government also gave ownership rights of agricultural land to farmers occupying it for free, charging them only Rs 100 per kanal as documentation fee