99 year lease to landless persons who migrated from Pakistan

September 11, 2013 20:24

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced rehabilitation of landless persons who had migrated from Pakistan during partition and were allocated land for a period of 20 years for cultivation.

"They are now being given further lease of the land for a period of up to 99 years," Hooda said in the state assembly.

With a view to rehabilitate such original allottees or their legal heirs who remained in continuous cultivating possession of the land up to September 24, 1986, the Haryana assembly today passed the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Haryana Amendment Bill, 2013.

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