Jammu, Feb. 16 -- Senior PDP legislator is going to introduce a private members bill in the Budget Session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly next month to seek proprietary rights for the owners of houses constructed on public land in the Union Territory.
PDP MLA from Pulwama Waheed ur Rehman Parra submitted the bill titled "The Jammu and Kashmir (Regularisation and Recognition of Property Rights of Residents in Public Land) Bill, 2025" to the assembly secretariat.
In a major anti-encroachment drive in 2023, the Lt Governor-led Jammu and Kashmir administration retrieved thousands of hectares of state land including Roshni and Kahcharai (grazing) land.
On November 1, 2020, the Union Territory administration cancelled all land t...