Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 1: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the displaced inhabitants of village Saddal in tehsil Mongri of Udhampur district, which was devastated due to landslide in the year 2014, Division Bench of High Court comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Sindhu Sharma has ordered for early completion of approach road, drains, water supply scheme and electric fittings.
After hearing Advocate Deepika Mahajan for the PIL, Division Bench observed, “the compliance report brings on record an order dated 24th November 2021 issued by the Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur, by which a team of five persons was constituted for the purposes of allotment of land to 132 displaced families of Village Saddal. On principle, five marlas of land to each of the family was to be allotted. The team was directed to make allotments in a transparent manner and to execute the lease agreements”.
“S S Nanda, Senior Additional Advocate General, points out that out of 132 families, 60 families have migrated to their original land in village Saddal as after the floods it was found that their land was not so seriously damaged and they can rehabilitate themselves on the land itself. Now only 62 families remain to whom rehabilitation package has to be granted”, the DB further observed, adding “they could not be allotted land as the Committee was in a fix whether to include or not to include the families who have left in the allotment procedure”.
“It is clarified that after the 60 families have migrated to their original place, the land be first allotted to the remaining 62 families latest by 31st March 2022 and the project work of leveling the land, construction of approach road, drains, water supply, electrical fittings etc may also be completed at the earliest”, the DB said.
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