Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that Hindus who were expelled or had to leave Pakistan and Bangladesh due to religious persecution will be provided with land that the state government freed from encroachers in Uttar Pradesh.
“Hindus, who were living in Meerut for decades after facing expulsion from Pakistan and Bangladesh, could not afford to build their own houses or buy lands. We have given 63 such Bengali Hindu families two acres of land and 200 square yards for housing per family in Kanpur Dehat. These lands were freed from ‘bhu mafia’ (land grabbers),” he said.
Each of the 63 families will also be given ₹1.20 lakh under ‘Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana’, at a programme organised to distribute appointment letters to candidates selected for various posts in government services.
The chief minister said all the land freed from “encroachers” was brought under a ‘land bank’ and these pieces of land will be used for setting up schools, industries, and other businesses. “Many facilities of the Defence Industrial Corridor have also been built on these recovered lands,” he said.
According to the chief minister, under his leadership, the state government currently has 64,366 hectares of recovered land and it is being allotted for the poor to build houses.
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