Amending the lease rules on Wednesday, the Himachal cabinet decided to provide government land on lease basis only if no alternate private land is available.
The new rules propose that encroached government land will not be leased to anybody except landless locals after ejecting the encroacher. The ruling Congress has been alleging for long that there were many loopholes in the state lease rules and this was misused during the previous BJP government.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/himachal-changes-lease-rules
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/baldev-s-chauhan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/himachal-pradesh
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-encroachments
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydroelectricity
