UP, Haryana agree to end land dispute

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 4Uttar Pradesh and Haryana will find a solution to the interstate dispute regarding the land along the Yamuna, coming under the Dixit Award, within a few months.
This was decided at a meeting between the DC of Palwal in Haryana and that of Aligarh in UP, Amit Kumar Aggarwal and K Ram Mohan Rao, respectively, held at Palwal recently. Revenue officers were also present at the meeting.
Earlier, a meeting between the Commissioner, Rohtak, and Commissioner, Meerut, was held a few days ago to end the long-standing land dispute between the two states.
Aggarwal said the cultivable land adjoining the Yamuna had been shifting from one state to the other following the change of course by the river.The boundary between the two states was determined under the Dixit Award in 1975 and pillars were fixed to mark the boundary.
However, now only a few of the pillars fixed at that time remained at the site. Now, the work to mark the land would again be conducted by the Survey of India, with whom Rs 18.95 lakh had already been deposited by the Palwal administration.The Survey of India would complete the work in the next few months and the pillars would be fixed again putting an end to the dispute between the two states.
Another meeting would be held next month at Aligarh. It was also decided by both the DCs to stop the work of registry and intkal of the disputed land till the Survey of India completed its task of marking the land.