Roshni Act

Why is it in news?
  • Beneficiaries of Roshni Act have filed the petition in Supreme Court.
Details:
  • Roshni Act was passed by J&K legislature in 2001 to confer ownership rights on occupants of State land to raise Rs. 25,000 crore for hydel projects, but only Rs. 76 crore was collected.
  • In 2018, the then Lieutenant Governor Satyapal Malik repealed the Act. Later, the High Court also scrapped the Act and directed the authorities to retrieve the land from the occupants.
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 27th Nov 2020
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