Baghlan registers 150,000 acres of usurped state land

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): Nearly 150,000 acres of usurped government land has been registered in northern Baghlan province and efforts to reclaim the land have been ongoing, an official said on Sunday.

Governor’s spokesman Mullah Alam Majidi told Pajhwok that the commission for restitution of usurped public lands has registered 298,301 jirbs of usurped government land in the province since its inception.

He said the commission had so far reclaimed 6,300 acres of government land from illegal occupants and efforts were ongoing to reclaim the rest of the land.

“Government land is state treasury and everyone has the right to it. No one can use it for personal benefit.”

Dawlat Khan Darwesh, land department official at the Baghlan Department of Agriculture, said hundreds of thousands of acres of government land had been usurped in the province and the commission had started working to recover it.

He said 5,000 acres of land after being freed from usurpation was leased out to farmers this year in order to benefit the nation.

Haji Mohammad Noor, a tribal elder from Dand Ghori area, hailed the government’s efforts to recover usurped land.

He stressed the land after being reclaimed should be used for the benefit of the people.

Local officials say besides agricultural lands, some historic sites have also been illegally occupied in Baghlan and efforts are being made to wrest back them.

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