Don’t make poor homeless

The government has launched a massive encroachment drive across Jammu & Kashmir in a bid to retrieve the land including state as well Kahcharai that has been illegally occupied by the people, especially the highly influenced people in the Union Territory. It is for the first time that the anti-encroachment drive at a massive strength has been launched in J&K, but the drive has created a chaos among the people, who have been claiming that despite having valid documents, their land as well as the properties are being snatched from them. The claims are being made at a time when the government has made sure that the people, who belong to the poor section of the society, will be excluded from the drive and that the big fishes will be dealt with strictly. However, in the ongoing drive, the authorities have sealed over two dozen shops in the commercial Hub Lal Chowk, who also staged a protest and demanded the administration to look into the matter. The protest comes a day after the people from Jammu division took to the streets and demanded relaxation from the eviction and anti-encroachment drive. It is the time when the government should come up with the official order to exclude the poor people from the anti-encroachment drive in Jammu and Kashmir so that they could heave a sigh of relief. The government should hear the pleas of the people belonging to the downtrodden section of the society so that they will not become homeless in this drive.