Panel reviews demarcation of border with UP

Tribune News Service

Karnal, June 16

A committee today reviewed the progress of erecting pillars along the Yamuna river here to demarcate the Haryana-UP border. Similar pillars will be erected in four other districts — Panipat, Sonepat, Faridabad and Palwal.

Once constructed, the pillars will resolve the decades-old dispute among farmers of the two states concerning land ownership and possession. Lt General Girish Kumar (retd), former Surveyor General of India; and Amna Tasneem, Director, Land Holdings and Land Records, Haryana, conducted a meeting of officials of the five districts. Lt General Kumar said, “The Survey of India is demarcating land based on the Dixit Award in 1975. The entire work is being taken up as per the Alteration of Boundaries Act, 1997. Through GPS, the location of pillars can be determined.”

Tasneem said, “The Chief Ministers of both states are taking interest in the project. They want a permanent solution of problems faced by farmers of the two states.” Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav said 396 pillars would be erected in the jurisdiction of Karnal district.

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