RAILWAYS TO LEASE OUT LAND TO EMPLOYEES FOR CULTIVATION

Railways to lease out land to employees for cultivation





 The railway board has approved the proposal to give railway land to rail employees interested in using the land for cultivation. The board

authorities have published circulars stating that the employees should submit an application if they are interested in it. The move is aimed at helping railway authorities get rid of encroachment into their land. In turn, employees might use the land for better purpose.







In the city, around two hectare land lying vacant could be used by railway employees on lease basis. Notably, divisional officials had forwarded a proposal to the railway board that they should allot vacant railway land along the rail tracks to railway employees on lease for a year. The employees would be allowed to use that land for the purpose of cultivation and gardening. In the circular, there are clear instructions that the railway inspector of works department would have to get the land under encroachments vacated as soon as possible so that they could lease it to employees.







Sources revealed that the authorities had to put in efforts to solve the problem of encroachment into railway land. They have allotted the entire work to Railway Land Development Agency (RLDA) and a special land record director had been appointed in Ferozepur division. A major problem for the railway authorities has been that they have been simply unaware of the total land under railways, but after keeping track of things through these officials, it has become easier for them to take action against encroachers- they have removed encroachments from their land in the past few months.







Rail employees feel while it would generate revenue for the authorities, the land could be put to good use in the bargain.







Giving the information, senior divisional commercial manager Dharmendra Kumar said railway authorities had appointed RLDA to make commercial use of railways’ vacant land. Now, according to the new circulars, employees could submit an application if they wanted to take the land on lease for a year.



SOURCE;TOI