The Garhwal commissioner Dilip Jawalkar stressed that the migration of the people from the mountainous districts and unemployment can be tackled through land consolidation. He exhorted the villagers to adopt land consolidation voluntarily and spoke to them about the advantages of land consolidation and its many technical aspects, while addressing the gathering of residents at the remote lakholi Gram Sabha, Pokhra block in Chaubattakhal Tehsil of Pauri district on Wednesday.
Commissioner Jawalkar was in the lakholi village till about 8 pm. He appreciated the survey work conducted in the area by the land consolidation team.
Expressing concern at the continuous migration from the mountains, Jawalkar said that the Pauri district has seen the maximum migration in the State. He said that migration can be tackled effectively through land consolidation as this would also address unemployment in the region.
lakholi is the first village in the whole State, where the process of land consolidation has started, which is an appreciable effort. Jawalkar said that the area of agriculture field will be processed using a digital system.
Nearly 90 per cent villagers of lakholi have given their consent for the land consolidation and to make the Khasra and Khatauni errorless, the inspection is being carried out at the Tehsil level.The technical process for the land consolidation will be done on the basis of digital process.
land consolidation expert Anil Singh referred to the different problems in the land consolidation and said that 16 per cent of the fertile agriculture land has become wasted and under the land consolidation, many hectares land could be utilised for the agriculture.
He said that after the survey of land consolidation and settlement team in the village and Gram Sabhas, its verification with the khasra and khatauni records of the tehsil, the process of the land consolidation will be conducted. Block Pramukh of Pokhra, Surendra Singh Rawat and Gram Pradhan of lakholi, Ved Prakash praised the adoption of land consolidation voluntarily.
Rawat put the proposal of lakholi and three other Gram Sabhas for the land consolidation. The sub divisional magistrate of Pauri, KS Negi, settlement officer Deewan Singh Negi, BJP ex-president of the district unit Pushkar Joshi and other officers concerned were also present on the occasion.