Guwahati: Assam Government will soon
adopt a land policy for the state incorporating various
issues relating to land settlement to landless people, poor
marginalized section and those affected by floods and erosion.
In a statement here on Saturday, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
said a committee would be formed to frame the policy by going
into the gamut of issues relating to the land policy.
Pointing that the Government has all along been
working for the interest of the indigenous people, the poor
and marginalized segments of the society, he said, foreigners
would not be allowed to acquire land deed at the expense of
the indigenous people.
Gogoi dared BJP to come with the list of 'dubious
citizens' who have been living in Guwahati, as alleged by the
party.
A demonstration led by the Krishak Mukti Sangram
Samiti (KMSS) demanding grant of land deeds to those
encroaching on government land in Dispur on Wednesday turned
violent and three persons were killed and 50 others injured.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, June 25, 2011, 21:14