In a relief to the farmers, Himachal Cabinet on Tuesday decided to wave off the stamp duty and registration fee for the farming community that will help them get back their sold or mortgaged land without additional burdens.
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, who presided over a meeting here, said that it has been done to provide relief to those distressed farmers whose land had been sold or ownership transferred in favour of the bank and recorded in revenue records.
Since the revenue authorities were pressing hard for the payment of stamp duty and registration fee, which some poor farmers were finding difficult to pay, a decision was taken to waive off stamp duty and registration fee in respect of those farmers who are availing benefit of ‘One Time Settlement’ scheme to facilitate transfer of their land in their names, he added.
The Cabinet decided to give incentive or award in shape of grand-in-aid to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) who elected all the office bearers and members un-opposed. The incentive would be Rs 5 lakh, Rs 10 lakh and Rs 15 lakh for Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishads respectively.
The Cabinet gave nod to the proposal to relax the norm of 100 meters from the road head for allotment of land upto 3 biswa in rural areas and 2 biswa in urban areas for the construction of dwelling units as per the housing policy of the state government to the urban and rural landless persons.