Punjab decides to amend land pooling policy
The Punjab Cabinet has given its nod to amend the state’s land pooling policy, whereby it would offer more benefits to landowners.
The cabinet, which met on Wednesday evening, also approved to waive facilitation charges for citizen-centric services, which include birth and caste certificates in the wake of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Addressing the media here on Thursday, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said it has been decided that landowners will get a commercial plot of 210 square yards as against 200 square yards now for giving every one acre of land under the land pooling policy.
Under the present policy, a landowner is entitled to get 1,000 square yards of a residential plot and 200 square yards of a commercial plot for an acre of land.
As per the amendment, if a landowner does not take 200 square yards of a commercial plot, then he will be entitled to 1,630 square yards of a residential plot as against the present provision of a 1,600 square yard plot, said Cheema.
On another decision, Cheema said that citizens require different documents like birth certificates, caste certificates, and residential certificates for the ongoing SIR exercise.
