The Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom (HC) has stayed the consolidation of agricultural holdings in Faridabad’s Kot village.

The Haryana income division had on November 11, 2021, determined to hold out consolidation of holdings in Faridabad’s Kot income property (Badhkal tehsil) for an space of ​​about 5,095 bighas. Consolidation of agricultural holdings means amalgamation, rearrangement and redistribution of land parcels in a income property in such a method that agricultural holdings are extra compact.

Kesar Singh, the sarpanch of Kot village, had petitioned the HC, contending that the state authorities’s try and provoke consolidation for Kot village was in clear violation of the Forest Conservation Act and Supreme Court orders. The petitioner stated that majority of the realm of ​​the village shaped a part of Aravallis hills and is forest land.

A HC bench of justice Sureshwar Thakur and justice Kuldeep Tiwari, whereas issuing a discover of movement on April 24, ordered that the operation of November 11, 2021, notification shall stay stayed until additional orders. The matter has been listed for August 1.

The petitioner stated the federal government is getting ready the consolidation scheme on the behest of personal corporations who’ve bought Gair Mumkin Pahar and wish to take the prime land of the villages by way of consolidation of holdings. Citing an inventory connected to the petition, the petitioner stated that it’s clear that influential corporations have bought the land and it’s at their behest that repeated notifications for consolidation are being issued in order that their buy of Gair Mumkin Pahar might be legalised. The petitioner stated that the director basic, consolidation of holdings, had on three events withdrawn the notification on account of it being faulty however the state authorities issued the November 2021 notification with malafide intention to learn non-public corporations.

The income division, whereas ordering consolidation of holdings in Kot income property for an space of ​​about 5,095 bighas, stated each the processes of consolidation of land holdings and kilabandi shall be carried out concurrently. The November 2021 order stated that kilabandi below consolidation proceedings shall be performed solely of land of personal house owners measuring about 728 bighas.

It additional stated there shall be no fort bandi below consolidation of shamilat taraf kot and shamilat taraf kharkhara because of pendency of a courtroom case. “There shall be conversion of unit of khasra numbers from bigha, biswa, biswansi to kanal and marla so as to bring the entire revenue estate, measuring about 5,095 bighas, into standard unit of area as kanal and marla,” the order stated.

The income division’s order stated that Gair Mumkin tilla, Gair Mumkin Nala and Gair Mumkin Pahar within the lands of personal house owners shall be saved in its authentic form and solely new khasra numbers shall be given.