Land Law amendments in Uttarakhand

Land Law amendments in Uttarakhand (2011):

For non-Uttarakhand residents wanting to buy residential properties in the state one is allowed to buy land up to 300 square yards (2,700 square feet).

The main confusion on buying land is predominantly around buying agricultural land in the state.

THE LATEST VERDICT OF UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT IN 2011:

The Uttarakhand High Court on September 22, 2011 struck down the much-contentious land reforms in the state under which outsiders were prohibited to buy more than 250 square meters of agriculture land.

Land Laws

A division bench of Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice U C Dhyani said all the citizens of the country would now be able to purchase up to 12.5 acres of agriculture land in the state under the Land Ceiling Act.

Earlier the existing land laws were discriminatory against the residents of Uttarakhand as any person who was not possessing any agriculture land before the Act came into being in 2003 was not eligible to buy more than 250 square meters of land.