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Haryana Grants Soil Rights to 100,000 Prajapati Families

State officials say the programme locks in raw-material access for pottery artisans after fulfilling a pledge made last month

Overview

  • Land-entitlement certificates were issued under the Gram Shamlat Bhumi Niyamawali (1964) across all 22 districts, covering about 1,700 villages and 100,000 families
  • Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini personally handed over certificates in Kurukshetra and urged the community to modernize their craft with new techniques and government schemes
  • The government constituted a Mati Kala Board and rolled out incentives to support clay artisans and integrate technology into traditional pottery
  • Backward-class measures include raising the creamy-layer income limit from ₹6 lakh to ₹8 lakh and granting 8% representation to Backward Class A in Panchayati Raj Institutions
  • Saini alleged that previous Congress administrations allowed encroachment on potters’ lands, a claim noted as an unadjudicated government allegation