The three-decade-long wait of the Kashmiri Pandit families, who between 1991 and 1993 purchased land in Haryana’s Jhajjar, ended on Thursday with the chief minister announcing 'Vachanpurti' scheme to allot plots to 182 families, according to a government statement. Making this announcement during a programme held here on Thursday, Manohar Lal Khattar physically handed over the allotment letters of the land in Sector 2, Bahadurgarh, to some of the 182 families who were specially invited for the programme.
The rest of the families received the letters from the state’s ministers and officers, who virtually attended the programme. A total of 209 families had purchased land in Sector 2, Bahadurgarh, some three decades ago, but could not occupy it until now.
“Today is a historic day in Haryana’s history as the wait of families of Kashmiri Pandits who had purchased land during 1991 and 1993 has finally ended. In these 30 years, they must have even lost the hope of getting their land which was sold to them without even telling its disputed status,” Khattar said.
After making suitable amendments in 1997, some of the plots were released in favour of Kashmiri Pandits, but those that did not get the land at that time had to wait for almost three decades, he said.