JAMMU: Old land laws system of Jammu & Kashmir was maybe appropriate when introduced but was essentially meant to serve a rural & agrarian economy. It became obsolete & when looked at as a whole suffered from redundancies & were regressive & anti-people. So there was a need to clean the system & give a set of simple land laws to prevent unnecessary litigation & discretionary interpretation as we know any such interpretation leaves scope for vested interests to operate. In this background 11 laws have been repealed: Rohit Kansal, Principal Secy, J&K
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