Centre notifies new J&K land laws, omits 'permanent resident' criteria, anyone can now buy land in J&K...similar laws for Ladakh soon to follow
A notification says the government may on written request of an Army officer not below the rank of Corp Commander declare an area as Strategic Area within a local area. Representative image The Centre has notified new laws, including fresh land laws, for the Union Territories (UTs) of J&K and Ladakh and omitted any precondition on purchase of land in J&K, as existed under Article 370 for the outsiders. Under the newly introduced J&K Development Act (XIX of 1970) , it notified that “omit, being permanent resident of the State”. In a fresh notification, Section 30 of and Part VII of the State Land Acquisition Act , Samvat 1990 was substituted by the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (30 of 2013) . Introducing the J&K Agrarian Reforms Act, the Jammu and Kashmir Forest Act, 1987 was also substituted by the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927). The Centre also completely repealed the J&K Alienation...