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Lucknow, 7 April. A total of 22 proposals were presented in the cabinet meeting chaired by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday, which were unanimously approved by the cabinet. Many important proposals to the transport department were approved in the meeting. The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal to give land ownership rights to 12 thousand 380 families who were displaced from Pakistan during partition and came to Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Rampur and Bijnor districts.

Along with this, the state government has given green signal to the construction of 49 new bus stands on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. Earlier, the process for 23 bus stands has been started in the first phase. With the new approvals, now 52 districts of the state will come under the scope of this scheme. The proposed bus stands will be developed on the lines of airports by equipping them with modern facilities.

Apart from this, proposals for providing government land in various districts for the construction of bus stands have also been approved. In Sikandrarau town of Hathras district, 2 hectares of land of Agriculture Department will be made available free of cost for the bus stand. Approval has been given to transfer Irrigation Department land in Dibai area of ​​Bulandshahr and Public Works Department (PWD) land in Tulsipur, Balrampur for the construction of a bus stand.

Families who came from Pakistan at the time of partition will get the right of ‘land ownership’

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal to giving land ownership rights to 12 thousand 380 families who were displaced from Pakistan during partition and came to Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Rampur and Bijnor districts. Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna informed about this decision taken in the state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday.

He said that the Cabinet has given its consent regarding providing ownership rights on land to the families who came to Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Rampur and Bijnor after the partition of India-Pakistan and were eligible for Indian citizenship under the Amended Citizenship Act 2019 or the Scheduled Tribe community or families settled under the colonization scheme.

The Finance Minister said that the total number of such families in Lakhimpur Kheri district is 2350, 4000 in Pilibhit, 3856 in Bijnor and 2174 in Rampur. Khanna said that the people of these families, who had come to these four districts as refugees at the time of partition, had to face huge difficulties in getting bank loans for farming and selling their crops at government procurement centers due to lack of ownership for the last 70 years.

He said that the Cabinet has taken necessary action under Section 76 (1) by making changes in the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code 2006, especially through the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code Second Amendment-2026, and this benefit is being provided to these families from the date of implementation of the Untransferable Rights Code. Khanna said that these families will have the right to take land up to the authorized limit of one acre, provided that the land does not fall under the ceiling and is also not the land of barn, pasture or pond.