MP Ghubaya raises problems of Cantonment residents before Defence Panel

Ferozepur, January 5, 2019: A 9-member Committee meeting to make certain amendments in Cantonments Board rules,  headed by Sumit Bose, IAS Chairman was attended by Sher Singh Ghubaya, MP from Ferozepur at Delhi.

Ministry of Defence – MoD – has constituted an expert panel consisting of 9 members to resolve complaints related to all 62 Cantonments in the country like expired/expiring leases, building bye-laws and FSI, transfer and mutation of old grant properties, freehold and service charges paid to cantonments.

Ghubaya said, the problems being faced by the residents of Cantonment were raised in the meeting. The committee members were apprised that for the last more than 100 years, the civilians are residing in Ferozepur Cantonment but they have any registration of their houses, shops etc. and they cannot go in for any repairs or alternation.

A proposal was given by me in the meeting that the landed property in their possession in the Cantonment may be transferred in their names and the passages which have been closed by the defence authorities be opened, he added.  

Ghubaya said the committee members were also apprised that the people residing within the radius of 5 km with the Indo-Pak had to face problems during the war days or rising of river level and they had to vacate the houses besides affecting the education of their children. A request was also made for ear-marking of separate border quota by giving certain numbers at the time of appointment.  He also desired that the farmers holding the land in the border belt land but fencing, mines or bunkers have been constructed, be released the balance compensation amounts.