Over 350 applications for freehold status of plots by Sindhi migrants
According to estimates, members of the Sindhi community are in possession of approximately 40 acres of land, including residential and commercial plots, in the Jaripatka and Khamla areas. These lands, originally allotted to Sindhi refugees who migrated during the Partition, are now eligible for regularisation under the scheme.
"Another 100 applications are likely to reach the collector's office shortly. In total, 475 applications have been received or are currently in process.
Of these, 175 are for commercial plots and the rest for residential ones," said senior BJP leader Virendra Kukreja, who has been actively representing the Sindhi community on this issue. "We are assisting locals in filing their applications," he added.
Kukreja said even those who arrived until the year 2000 are eligible to benefit. "The applicants must pay a regularisation fee, which varies depending on the date of the supporting documents submitted," said a source.
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According to the government resolution issued in May, applications with documents dated before July 20, 1982, will attract fees based on the ready reckoner rates of 1989. For those dated between July 20, 1982, and December 31, 2000, the 2000 rates will apply. For documents dated between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2024, the current ready reckoner rates will be used.
"It has been a long wait for displaced families who fled their homes in Pakistan. The matter was finally taken up by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis," Kukreja said.
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