CM assures Land for Gurdwara Sri Gian Godri Sahib in Haridwar

Dehradun/ Chandigarh, December 24 – Uttarakhand CM Dhami assured SAD delegation, led by Sukhbir Badal, of land allotment for Gurdwara Sri Gian Godri Sahib in Haridwar. The CM pledged support for SGPC in finalizing the site, with a team set to visit soon.

Sukhbir Badal thanked Dhami, highlighting the resolution of a long-standing demand to reestablish the gurdwara. Additionally, the CM agreed to address grievances of farmers in Bazpur, Udham Singh Nagar district, facing ceiling notices and land sale restrictions. The resolution would bring relief to Sikh farmers who had transformed Uttarakhand’s jungles into fertile fields over decades.

Sukhbir Badal also disclosed while talking to newsmen here that the Uttarakhand chief minister had also agreed to intercede and  resolve the grievances of thousands of farmers of Bazpur in Udham Singh Nagar district who were facing ceiling notices as well as restrictions on sale of their lands which they had taken on lease more than seventy years back. He said resolution of this case involving 4,805 acres of land in Bazpur would be a huge relief to the hard working Sikh farmers of Uttarakhand who had turned the jungles of Uttarakhand into lush fields with their sweat and blood.

Giving details,  Badal said thousands of people settled in 20 villages of Tehsil Bazpur had been recorded as Bhumidars with transferable rights since the past 50 years across 4805 acres of land. He said besides agriculture fields,
factories, markets, residential colonies and schools were situated in the area which had been given on lease under the Crown Grants Act 1895 in August 1920 till 2013.