After a wait lasting decades, the residents of lalkuan have finally being accorded their land ownership rights. Chief minister Harish Rawat handed over the Government gazette regarding the land ownership rights of lalkuan residents to the local MlA and cabinet Minister Harish Chandra Durgapal along with other public representatives. Authorities state that all that remains to be done now is the affixation of land circle rates.
A delegation of Congress members from lalkuan had earlier called upon the Chief Minister in Dehradun to raise the issues of land ownership rights and construction of a bypass road in the area. Responding to their request, Rawat handed over to the public representatives, a copy of the Government gazette passed in the Vidhan Sabha.
Speaking on the occasion, the chief minister said that he has remained committed to ensuring the desired level of development in the lalkuan Vidhan Sabha constituency.
The State will soon send a communication to the Central Government regarding the bypass demanded apart from which the necessary process has also been initiated for providing the residents of Bindukhatta area with land ownership rights, he said. With the government gazette, the residents of lalkuan will enjoy land ownership rights and will not be considered as illegal occupants of the land.
Regarding the issue of circle rates for the land here, the CM said that since lalkuan is a town of quite an old settlement, the people here will be granted land ownership rights at a very low rate.
On the occasion, the Nagar Panchayat head Rambabu Mishra submitted a proposal for construction of a ‘high –tech’ marriage hall at a cost of Rs1.5 crore while also stressing that there was no large venue in lalkuan for holding larger programmes