Claiming a big success in its anti-land mafia campaign the Yogi Government has claimed that it has freed over 11812 hectare of land from the land mafia in last six months and has initiated action against others.
In a statement issued here on Monday government spokesman said that the state Government had initiated a special campaign against land mafia under which it had identified 2816 land sharks who have encroached government land.
“In a sustained effort of six months the government has got 11812.85 hectare of land freed,” the spokesman said in his statement.
He said that as per the records of the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Board gram labha land of 19443.57 hectare was been encroached by mafias against which 9550.19 hectare was been freed. Besides it government land and property of 2262.69 hectare has been freed.
“Sustained action is on to free the land from the land encroachers,” he said. “In every district complaints against land mafia is being registered in the portal. The information is gathered in four phases – at tehsil, district, division and state level. Action is being taken as per the directives of the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,” spokesman said.
Government had claimed that previous government had given patronage to criminals that had led to increase in encroachment of government land. Previously no government took pains to get information about land encroachment this led to piquant situation where government land was taken over by land mafias.