District Level Committee on Change of Land use today met here under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner Ashok Sharma to discuss and approve the applications received online from across the district.Officers who attended the meeting included CEO Kishtwar Development Authority/SDM Chatroo Inderjeet Parihar, ACR Kishtwar Varunjeet Singh Charak, DFO Kishtwar Sagar Singh and other concerned officers.
It is pertinent to mention here that new guidelines have been issued to regulate the uncontrolled conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes on the one hand and to meet the developmental aspirations of the district and the people on the other hand.
The meeting, after a threadbare discussion, approved all the five cases submitted for the conversion of agricultural land to non agricultural.The DC directed concerned departments to ensure timely issuance of NOCs to the applicants after proper verification of documents in the light of the rules under land conversion Regulations, 2022.He also advised the officers to get field certification before disposal of the applications.