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UP Launches Time-Bound Process to Grant Land Titles to East Pakistan Refugees

A detailed plan due by August 15 will map out steps for formalizing land records for displaced families.

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Yogi Adityanath has said it is a sensitive and historic step toward delivering justice to the displaced families who have lived in uncertainty for decades. (FILE PHOTO)

Overview

  • Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on July 21 directed district magistrates to take decisive, time-bound action to grant legal ownership to nearly 10,000 families displaced from East Pakistan between 1960 and 1975.
  • The process draws on a May report by a panel led by Moradabad Commissioner Aunjaneya Singh plus lessons from Uttarakhand to overcome hurdles created by the 2018 repeal of the Government Grant Act.
  • Officials have been tasked with resolving record mismatches, forest department claims, incomplete mutation procedures that have kept families off official land registers.
  • District magistrates must identify eligible refugee families, update land records, address revenue issues under a detailed plan due by August 15.
  • The initiative seeks to provide legal certainty, restore dignity to families who have lived and farmed on these lands for decades without formal titles.