{"id":6675,"date":"2025-12-12T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:57:24","slug":"over-1200-acres-defence-land-encroached-or-in-court-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/over-1200-acres-defence-land-encroached-or-in-court-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,200 acres defence land encroached or in court: Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar Dec 12:\u00a0<\/strong>Union Ministry of Defence Friday informed Lok Sabha that more than 1,200 acres of defence land in Jammu and Kashmir is either under encroached or involved in litigation.<\/p>\n<p>The official figures placed before Parliament reveal that \u201cJ&amp;K has 877.98 acres of surplus defence land, identified as not currently required for operational needs of the Armed Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of encroachments, the Ministry reported that 311.86 acres of defence land in J&amp;K and 29.58 acres in Ladakh are currently under encroachment. \u201cAcross the country, over 11,000 acres are encroached.\u201d the Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The data further reveal that 930.36 acres of defence land in J&amp;K is under litigation, making it one of the higher figures among Union Territories. No litigation-related land was listed for Ladakh in the annexure.<\/p>\n<p>The government clarified that surplus land identified across India has been circulated to other central departments for possible utilisation\u2014stressing that any land appearing unused may actually be reserved for military training, mobilisation, or future infrastructure under Key Location Plans (KLP).<\/p>\n<p>It further noted that defence land records have been fully digitised under the \u2018Raksha Bhoomi\u2019 project, though public access remains restricted due to security considerations<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar Dec 12:\u00a0Union Ministry of Defence Friday informed Lok Sabha that more than 1,200 acres of defence land in Jammu and Kashmir is either under encroached or involved in litigation. The official figures placed before Parliament reveal that \u201cJ&amp;K has 877.98 acres of surplus defence land, identified as not currently required for operational needs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6676,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}