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The Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided to go ahead with its scheme of land settlement in favour of the non-refugees residing in the city for generations. The modalities of the scheme concerning the acquirement of land and its distribution are being finalised at the state government level in consultation with the SMC.
Giving this information, Mr Bikash Ghosh, mayor, SMC, said that nothing was done so far in the direction of land settlement for the hundreds of non-refugee families. “They under ad-verse circumstances had settled down in the colonies under the Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation department as well as on the government vest land. They are not enjoying the refugee status. And this has come in the way of the due transfer of land in their favour. We are proposing to transfer the land being occupied by the non-refugee families for years in their names. The state government has agreed to the SMC scheme in principle. Only the modalities of the scheme are being finalised at the Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation Department level of the state government,” Mr Ghosh said.
Mr Paritosh Roy, chief executive officer, SMC said that 649 non-refugee families are occupying around 22 acre of land. We have proposed to the Land and Land Reform and the Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation Departments to first transfer the land in the name of the SMC. Once this is done, we would sit with the families and decide the land settlement issue with them,” Mr Roy added.

Courtesy: The Statesman

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