Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Friday said that displaced persons from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) who settled in the Union Territory decades ago have been granted ownership rights over the land allotted to them.

In a written reply to a question by a legislator, the Revenue Department, said that displaced persons of 1947, 1965, and 1971 have already received ownership rights under various government orders and acts.

The department said the government has taken multiple steps over the years to regularize refugee colonies and confer proprietary rights, citing key decisions including Cabinet Order No. 578-C of 1954, the Agrarian Reforms Act of 1976, and orders issued in 1966 and 2024.

It said families were allotted evacuee land, state land, and residential qua

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