I. Resettlement Figures (net standard acres)
|
Tahsil |
Area available |
Area required |
Proposed resettlement |
|
|
|
For own |
|
|
|
|
colonists |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Karnal |
91857 |
Colonists |
1852 |
|
Panipat |
28821 |
Montgomery |
8000 |
|
Thanesar |
45116 |
Chunian |
7000 |
|
|
|
Gujranwala |
60000 |
|
Kaithal |
71577 |
Sheikhupura |
70000—(including |
|
|
|
Multan |
58000 Mazhabis) |
|
|
--------- --------- |
Lyallpur |
15000—non- |
|
|
237371 1852 |
Mianwali |
1000 colonists) |
|
|
--------- ---------- |
Muzaffargarh |
15000 |
|
|
|
Reserve |
1519 |
|
|
|
|
---------- |
|
|
|
|
237371 |
|
|
|
|
---------- |
II. Scheme of Sub-allocation
Sub-allocation between displaced persons form different districts of West Punjab presented considerable difficulty. When the first tentative allocation of areas was made on the 15th September 1947, the bulk of Muslims in the Ambala Division and non- Muslims in the Multan Division were still in their homes and, although it was felt that migration was a development, which might eventually take place, it was not regarded as an immediate possibility. In the first allocation of areas, in the main, the district of the Central Punjab and of the Rawalpindi Division was dealt with and the migration form the Multan Division was a kind of residual liability. Accordingly, at first, against the district of the Multan Division in West Punjab the districts of Karnal, Rohtak, Gurgaon and Hissar were shown together in a general way without any attempt to differentiate between them. For displaced persons form Gujranwala and Sheikhupura the allocation proposed at first included Ferozepur district, the Sikh States and later Karnal. When displaced persons form Sheikhupura and Gujranwala arrived in Ferozepur district the local authorities felt that with displaced persons form Montgomery and Lahore already present in the district in large numbers there was no room for others from Sheikhupura and Gujranwala. At this stage the Sikh States had no declared policy of resettling displaced person in co-operation with the East Punjab Government and it was some time later that the Patiala State announced the West Punjab tahsils whose population it was willing to take. The result was that large numbers from Sheikhupura and Gujranwala trekked with their bullock-carts to Karnal district and tried to get into as many good villages as were then available and open to occupation.
In the meantime, because of the existence of a vary large relief camp at Kurukshetra in the Karnal district, trains which came day after day in quick succession with refugees form Multan Division poured them first into Kurukshetra when they too began to spread into various parts of the district. Thus, already in the beginning of November 1947, there arose what was almost a feeling of struggle for land among displaced persons form Sheikhupura and Gujranwala and the district of the Multan Division. It was a consequence of this state of affairs, that in the temporary resettlement scheme in Karnal district, each of the refugee elements mentioned above found some space. Further allotment was more or less reserved for the Multan Division, and within the Multan Division, tahsil Shujabad of Multan district was given preference according to a scheme approved by the Joint Rehabilitation Board. It was against the background of a period of temporary allotment which was marked by a strong eagerness on the part of displaced persons form different districts for settlement in Karnal district that the final scheme of resettlement had to be drawn up.
It was in these circumstances that in the quasi-permanent scheme it was decided that all the displaced persons from Gujranwala and Sheikhupura who were settled in tahsil Panipat should be drawn into other tahsils and Panipat made available for Multan Division alone. It was further agreed that even in the remaining tahsils groups of villages should be earmarked for displaced persons from Gujranwala and Sheikhupura on the one hand and for those from districts of the Multan Division on the other, so that virtually ‘zones’ were created for them much in the same way as was done in Ferozepur in respect of displaced persons from Montgomery and Lahore. In demarcating zones the primary consideration was to give to each group irrigated land in proportions determined by the extent of irrigated area abandoned by them in West Punjab. In the distribution of the irrigated villages, 15% of the area was reserved for meeting the claims of Lyallpur and Montgomery non-colonists, colonists of Karnal district and displaced persons from Chunian tahsil. For other districts sharing land in Karnal district specific groups of villages were indicated. Within these further allocation was to be made in accordance with rules relating to grading of villages, temporary allottees etc. The provisions for sub-allocation relating to particular districts or categories were as follows:
1. Chunian
Land was to be allotted only to those who already held temporary allotment in the district.
2. Gujranwala and Sheikhupura
Land was to be allotted only to those who already held temporary allotment in the district; others could receive allotment only under the orders of Financial Commissioner. Mazhabi Sikhs from Sheikhupura were treated as a special case and were given land in Karnal district in certain specified villages without regard to whether they held temporary allotments or not.
3. Montgomery
The provision was for those who already held temporary allotments in the district.
4. Lyallpur
non-colonists
The provision was for the indigenous non-Muslim population of Lyallpur district, especially those who lived in the Toba Tek Singh tahsil, the largest concentration being near Kamalia. This group of displaced persons was considered a fairly well-defined category by itself.
5. Multan
District
The bulk of the allotment due to displaced persons form Multan was made in Hissar district, but the following categories were specially assigned to Karnal;
(a) Claimants from various tahsil of Multan is already settled in Karnal;
(b) Claimants from the Atraf circle of Multan tahsil;
(c) Claimants from the Tulamba circle of Khanewal tahsil;
(d) Non-colonists form the Burewala circle of Vehari tahsil;
(e) The balance of Shujabad tahsil not covered by category (a); and
(f) Others with special sanction.
6. Muzaffargarh
In addition to those holding temporary allotment, displaced persons form the Pucca circle of Muzaffargarh and Kot Adu tahsil were allocated to Karnal district.
7. Mianwali
The provision for 1000 standard acres for Mianwali district was designed to meet the claims of those already settled in the district, and, in particular, of displaced weavers form Bhakkar tahsil who were brought in by the East Punjab Government to replace the former Muslim weavers of Panipat.
III.
Sub-allocation Adjustments
1. Karnal had an excess of claims of Multan district amounting to about 6000 standard acres. It was, therefore necessary (under instructions dated the 18th October, 1949) to transfer a proportion of the claims to Hissar. For settlement in Karnal the following categories were to be given preference:
(a) Claims of those who held the greater part of their land in the Atraf circle of Multan tahsil;
(b) Claims of those who held the greater part of their land in Tulamba proper and of those who, while residing in Tulamba, had held land in Tulamba as well as the neighbouring villages of the Tulamla circle in tahsil Khanewal;
(c) Claims of those who held the greater part of their land in any of the following villages situated within four miles of Burewala town in the Burewala sub-tahsil of Vehari tahsil:
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In transferring claims to Hissar care was to be taken to avoid hardship arising either on account of the separation of close relations or because villages of temporary allotment in Hissar district from which certain claims had been moved to Karnal had already been allotted quasi-permanently.
2. There were other important adjustments also. Under instructions issued in December, 1949, as claims of Gujranwala were reported to be surplus with Karnal to the extent of over 12000 standard acres and Sheikhupura to the extent of over 8000 standard acres, the following transfers were approved :
(a) To Bhatinda district, claims of tahsil Gujranwala, Charkhari circle the Wazirabad, Chenab circle; and tahsil Hafizabad;
(b) To Sangrur, claims or tahsil Gujranwala less Charkhari circle; and tahsil Wazirabad less Chenab circle;
(c) To Jullundur, claims of the following zails of Gujranwala tahsil;
Chatha Banothan
Chahal
Botala Jhandasingh
Mandiala Waraich
Arup
Ladhewali
Naraich
(d) To Patiala, surplus claims of Sheikhupura district;
(e) Transfer of surplus claims of Lyallpur and Montgomery non-colonists to Jullundur (reported at the time to amount to 2398 and 1644standard acres respectively). Claims of sitting allottees were to be considered first for transfer.
(f) Acceptance of claims of displaced persons form Chunian who were temporary allottees of Karnal amounting to 1580 standard acres in excess of provision in allocation scheme in view of deficiency of land in Ferozepur or Bhatinda district.
(g) Transfer to Hissar of surplus claims of Muzaffargarh amounting to 2753 standard acres :
3. Progress of allotment was under constant review and in January, 1950, small changes in the areas represented by transfers of Muzaffargarh and Multan claims to Hissar and Lyallpur claims to Jullundur were necessary and the following further adjustments were proposed :
(a) Transfer of Montgomery claims amounting to 1644 standard acres to Ferozepur;
(b) Increase in allocation for Sheikhupura by 2514 standard acres and allotment of Gujranwala quota amounting to 1895 standard acres to Sheikhupura;
(c) As Sheikhupura claims were still surplus with Karnal, it was proposed that after meeting the claims of temporary allottees, claims of those entitled to more than 25 standard acres for whom no specific orders of allotment in Karnal district already existed should be passed to Hissar for settlement in villages which were separately indicated.
Some increase was secured through the allotment of uncultivated shamilat land in wholly Muslim villages and also through the valuation at the barani rate of uncultivated land, which was being reclaimed during 1949-50 by the department of Agriculture.
4. Under instruction dated the 14th February, 1950,
(a) further transfers of Sheikhupura claims were made to Pepsu (Rajpura tahsil 2200 standard acres, Patiala 300 standard acres and Bhatinda 400 standard acres);
(h) fewer surplus claims of Multan had to be transferred to Hissar than was proposed at first as it became possible to allot suburban land at Panipat to non-suburban claimants form Multan on the basis of enhanced valuation.
10. ROHTAK DISTRICT
I. Resettlement Figures (net standard acres).
|
Tahsil |
Area |
Area required for |
Proposed |
|
|
Available |
Own colonists |
Resettlement |
|
|
32322 |
Colonists |
8293 |
|
Rohtak |
13368 |
Muzaffargarh |
30333 |
|
Sonepat |
27063 |
Jhang |
48515 |
|
Gohana |
11565 |
|
|
|
Jhajjar |
2823 |
|
|
|
Dojana |
|
|
|
|
|
----------- |
------------ |
------------ |
|
|
87141 |
8293 |
87141 |
|
|
----------- |
------------ |
------------ |
II. Scheme of Sub-allocation
The main groups of displaced persons to be settled in Rohtak district were from Jhang and Muzaffargarh districts in addition to colonists of Rohtak.
Colonists
Unless they were already settled in other tahsils, it was arranged that the colonists of Rohtak and Sonepat should be settled in their own tahsils in the Nehri and Banger circles respectively. Colonists of Gohana tahsil were to be settled in the Nehri circle of Gohana tahsil. Colonists of Jhajjar were to be settled in Gohana tahsil unless they were settled in their own tahsil and wished to remain there. A similar rule was made for colonists of Dadri tahsil. The object in both cases was to give the colonists of two dry areas who had left fertile irrigated lands in west Punjab an opportunity of setting in a tahsil with good land and irrigation.
Jhang
1. Displaced persons form Jhang district was to receive land mainly in the Rohtak district and to a small extent in the Hissar district. In Rohtak district they were to receive land in tahsil Rohtak and Gohana in accordance with the following general scheme, subject of course to the ordinary rules applicable to temporary allottees :
In the Nehri circle of Gohana tahsil preference was to be given to displaced persons from (a) the Lower Chenab colony area of Chiniot and Shorkot tahsil and the Haveli Project portion of Jhang district; and (b) the Chenab Nehri circles of Chiniot, Jhang and Shorkot tahsil and Jhelum Nehri circle of Chiniot tahsil.
2. In the Nehri circle of Rohtak tahsil preference was to be given to displaced person form the Lower Chenab Colony circle of Jhang tahsil and the Jhelum Nehri circle of Jhang tahsil.
3. In the selection of villages the Lower Chenab Colony and Haveli Project were to be preferred as against the other circles of Jhang district mentioned above.
4. In the Mehm circle of Gohana tahsil and the Chak Rajputan circle of Rohtak tahsil, land was to be allotted to displaced persons from the Joint circler of Shorkot tahsil and Grade I villages of the Chenab, Jhelum and Kachhi circles.
5. Displaced persons from villages falling in grades II, III and IV (irrigation 40 to 60 per cent, 30 to 40 per cent and below 30 per cent respectively) of Kachhi, Jhelum and Chenab circles an Thal circles were to be allotted land in the Loharu sub-tahsil, Amrain Bagar circle and Behl-Sawain circle of Bhiwani tahsil of Hissar district.
Muzaffargarh
Displaced persons from Muzaffargarh district had to be accommodated in a number of districts. Those already settled in Gurgaon district were to remain there. The area due to those settled in Karnal was to be augmented so as to provide a total of 16,000 standard acres of Muzaffargarh district in Karnal district. The evacuee area of Dadri tahsil of Mohindergarh district was also included within the sub-allocation scheme of Muzaffargarh. Finally, it was found necessary to provide about 10,000 standard acres, not all in a compact block, in Hissar district. The settlement of displaced persons from Muzaffargarh in Rohtak district was to be on the following lines :
1. Displaced persons from Muzaffargarh district holding land in the colonies were to be entitled to receive allotment in the Sonepat tahsil;
2. Displaced persons from the Pucca circle of Alipur were entitled to allotment in Sonepat tahsil;
3. Displaced persons from the Pucca circle of Leiah tahsil were to receive allotment in Chak Rajputan of Rohtak tahsil in the area to be earmarked for Muzaffargarh district in that tahsil;
4. In the Jhajjar tahsil, after meeting the claims of displaced persons from Leiah and Kot Adu already settled, preference was to be given to displaced persons from Thal Nehri and Thal Chahi of Kot Adu tahsil and Kacha, Thal Jhandi and Thal Kalan circles of Leiah tahsil;
5. The Dadri tahsil (part of Mohindargarh district) was to receive displaced persons from the Thal cirlce of Muzaffargarh thasil and other claims surplus to Jhajjar thasil;
6. Displaced persons from the Sind circle of Kot Adu tahsil and the Kacha circle of Leiah tahsil were to be settled along with the rest of the population of these tahsils in the Rohtak-Dadri area;
7. Displaced persons from Sind and Chenab circles of Muzaffargarh tahsil and Sind and Chenab circles of Alipur tahsil, subject to the exclusion of those already settled and eligible for allotment in their areas of temporary settlement, were to be settled in the Sirsa tahsil of Hissar district.
III. Sub-allocation Adjustments
Muzaffargarh
District
The prospect of allotment in the Bhiwani tahsil was distasteful to many displaced persons of Jhang district, especially to those who had obtained land on temporary allotment, which they were now not, entitled under the rules to retain. The claims of a certain number of displaced persons who held perennial land in Jhang district had been transferred to Hissar. The fact that there was very little cultivation in Jhang district without some kind of irrigation sharpened the contrast between the land which had been abandoned and the unirrigated sandy tracts which were now offered for allotment. The difficulty was met to some extent by earmarking a number of villages with an area of about 4000 standard acres in the neighbourhood of Hissar town to provide for the superior among the claims transferred to Hissar and also to provide for the transfer of another group of claims back to Rohtak district. In accordance with these instructions claims to the extent of 1304 standard acres were due to be returned from Hissar to Rohtak district and claims to the extent of 4000 standard acres were to be settled in the Hissar tahsil. The following claims amongst those which had more than 50% of the cultivated area under perennial irrigation were proposed for settlement in Rohtak district :
(a) Claims of temporary allottees of Rohtak district who had been shifted;
(b) Claims of those who had applied to the effect that they had been separated from close relations even though they were not actually temporary allottees; and
(c) Claims in respect of which orders to allotment in Rohtak existed or were obtained.
The remaining claims with Hissar in which more than 50% of the cultivated area was under perennial irrigation were to be transferred from Bhiwani tahsil to Hissar tahsil. In addition, the following claims were to be met in Hissar tahsil:
(a) Claims transferred to Hissar in which either one-fourth of the cultivated area or a minimum area of five acres was held in the form of perennial land:
(b) Claims in which 75% of the total area was irrigated; and
(c) Claims from qasbas (small towns) such as, Kot Isa Shah, Garh Maharaja and others, which were to be listed.
During the course of resettlement an area of 2351 standard acres was erroneously allotted in the Jhajjar tahsil to displaced persons of the Shorkot tahsil, mainly of the Kachhi circle. These allotrenst had to be reviewed and cancelled, and apart from claims of temporary allottees entitled to remain in the Rohtak district, others were to be sent to the Hissar district. The villages in question were to be allotted to claimants from Muzaffargarh.
Towards the end of resettlement work it was found that claims of Jhang district to the extent of 1097 standard acres were surplus in Rohtak. These had, therefore, to be settled in the Bhiwani tahsil of Hissar district. (For other details, see sub-allocation adjustments under Hissar district).
In the course of resettlement work an error in the classification of certain villages of Alipur tahsil of Muzaffargarh district, which was important for resettlement, came to notice. Villages with hadbast numbers 31 to 51 and 118 to 132 had been shown in a list supplied by the West Punjab Government as being in the Chenab assessment cirlce. By reference to the jamabandis it was found that villages with hadbast numbers 31 to 51 belonged to the Sind assessment circle and those with hadbast number 118 to 151 to the Pucca assessment circle. The sub-allocation for displaced persons not holding temporary allotment and belonging to the Sind and Chenab circles was the same, namely, the Sirsa tahsil. For the Pucca circle of Alipur tahsil, however, the sub-allocation was Sonepat tahsil of Rohtak district. It was necessary, therefore, to rectify any allotment made in the Sirsa tahsil of displaced persons from the Pucca circle of Alipur tahsil.
2. Both Sonepat and Jhajjar tahsils had surplus claims for which land was not available. A group of villages near Tohana in Tahsil Hissar was, therefore, earmarked for receiving these claims. Available area in the Dadri tahsil was to be utilized for meeting the clams of Leiah and Kot Adu tahsils.
11.
GURGAON DISTRICT
I. Resettlement Figures (net standard acres)
|
Tahsil |
Area |
Area required |
Proposed |
|
|
Available |
for own colonists |
Resettlement |
|
Gurgaon |
9101 |
|
Colonists 2559 |
|
Palwal |
15314 |
|
Dera Ghazi |
|
Ballabgarh |
5717 |
|
Khan 47009 |
|
Rewari |
6243 |
|
Mianwali 20716 |
|
Ferozepur |
|
|
Muzaffargarh 3000 |
|
Jhirka |
13598 |
|
Reserve 400 |
|
Nuh |
13981 |
|
|
|
Pataudi |
730 |
|
---------- |
|
|
|
|
73684 (including 9000 of |
|
|
|
|
Bawal and Narnaul) |
|
|
------- |
------ |
|
|
|
64684 |
2410 |
|
|
|
------- |
------ |
---------- |
The bulk of the population from Dera ghazi Khan and Mianwali districts, including colonists from these districts, was settled in Gurgaon district. In addition, in respect of Muzaffargarh, provision was made for those who were already settled in the district and had not expressed a wish to move.
as grade I and even as grade II in the Gurgaon district, it was necessary to share out the relatively more fertile area of Palwal and Ballabgarh tahsils between the more fertile areas of Dera Ghazi Khan district. It was, therefore, provided that the entire area available in Ballabgarh tahsil should be given to displaced persons of the Chahi Nehri circle of Dera Ghazi Khan tahsil. This tahsil was also to receive in addition in Palwal tahsil an area of 7500 standard acres.
provided in the Palwal tahsil.
tahsil.
Bangar circle of Ferozepur Jhirka tahsil.
district were to be settled in the Ferozepur Jhirka tahsil in the Bangar, Daher, Chinot circles and in the grade III villages of Budher circle of Ferozepur Jhirka tahsil.
were to receive allotment in the Sohana and Sahibi circles of Gurgaon tahsil and, if necessary, in the grade III villages of Bahora and Bhud circles of Gurgaon tahsil.
of Jampur tahsil, from a group of villages (which was specified) near Dajal in Jampur tahsil and from the Pachhad of Rajanpur tahsil were to receive allotment in the grade IV villages of the Bahora and Bhud circles of Gurgaon tahsil and the grade IV villages of the Budher circle of Ferozepur Jhirka tahsil. Claimants from the Pachhad circle of Sanghar tahsil and the remaining Pachhad claimants of Jampur tahsil were to be settled in the Narnaul tahsil.
or Mianwali districts or where Muzaffargarh refugees were already settled, displaced persons to whom allotment had already been made could continue where they were, provided they wished to do so and their settlement was consistent with the rules of grading. Thus, a displaced person from the Pucca circle of Bhakkar tahsil could remain in Palwal or Ballabgarh if he were already settled temporarily and wished tahsil to remain there.
Narnaul of Mohindergarh district in Pepsu and Gurgaon were treated as a single area of allocation.
tahsil of Mohindergarh district and Gurgaon district were treated as one area. The provision in this area was in addition to 4000 standard acres provided in the Ambala district in the interest of those already settled there and others from the Pucca circle of Mianwali tahsil and to 1000 standard acres provided in the Karnal district in the interest of displaced weavers from Bhakkar tahsil who had been settled at Panipat.
Mianwali tahsil and the Saadat Miani circle were to be settled in the Gurgaon and Sahibi circles of Gurgaon tahsil and the Bangar and Daher circles of Nuh tahsil.
and Khudri of Mianwali tahsil, the Kacha of Bhakkar tahsil and the Kacha circle of Isa Khel tahsil were to be settled in grade III villages of Daher and Taoru circles of Nuh tahsil, the Pataudi sub-tahsil and grade II and grade III villages of the Sahibi circle of Rewari tahsil.
to be entitled for allotment in the Chahat Khari circle of Rewari tahsil, Bawal tahsil and the available area in the Sahibi circle of Rewari tahsil.
In the area proposed for the settlement of Mianwali claimants, it was open to displaced persons from Dera Ghazi Khan and Muzaffargarh who held temporary allotment to continue there if they wished to do so and were eligible under the rules of grading.
1. On account of the decision to permit certain refugees from Kashmir who had been
given ad hoc allotments by the late Patiala Government in Narnaul tahsil to continue there, it became necessary to find additional area to the extent of 1400 standard acres in Hissar district for displaced persons from the Dera Ghazi Khan district. The necessary provision was made in villages Akanwali and Jamalpur Sheikhan near Tohana in tahsil Hissar. Although the proposed area had better land than could be made available to the displaced persons concerned, it was felt that it was appropriate to compensate them to some extent for the considerable distance which would now separate them from other displaced persons of their district.
12.
HISSAR DISTRICT
I. Resettlement Figures (net standard acres)
|
Tahsil |
Area |
Area required |
|
Proposed |
|
|
Available |
For own |
|
Resettlement |
|
|
|
Colonists |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hissar |
45792 |
|
Colonists |
13946 |
|
Hansi |
26860 |
|
Multan |
145159 |
|
Bhiwani |
17938 |
|
Lyallpur |
5000 (non-colonist) |
|
Sirsa |
83691 |
|
Amritsar colonists |
2000 (in Sirsa tahsil) |
|
Fatehabad |
62253 |
|
With Ferozepur |
|
|
|
|
|
Bhatinda area |
46515 |
|
|
|
|
Jhang |
10323 |
|
|
|
|
Muzaffargarh |
10000 |
|
|
|
|
Reserve |
3591 |
|
|
------------ |
----------------- |
|
---------- |
|
|
236534 |
13946 |
|
236534 |
|
|
------------ |
----------------- |
|
---------- |
Hissar was the “overflow district” par excellence to which claims, which were, surplus to other districts were transferred increasingly as the work of resettlement advanced. The sub-allocation of Sirsa-tahsil had been linked with that of Ferozepur and Bhatinda as part of the scheme for the Ferozepur–Sirsa Bhatinda area. This entailed resettlement in part of displaced persons from Lahore, Montgomery and Bahawalpur. Resettlement in Hissar was also intimately connected with that of Karnal and Rohtak on account of the claims of Multan, Muzaffargarh and Jhang districts. Towards the end of resettlement operations it became an area of resettlement for residual claims of Sheikhupura, Dera Ghazi Khan and Amritsar colonists as well.
(1) Claimants from Multan tahsil except those entitled to settlement in Karnal district on account of temporary allotment and those belonging to the Atraf circles of Multan tahsil were to be settled in the Hissar tahsil;
(2) Claimants from Kabirwala tahsil and Khanewal tahsil (other than those from the Tulamba circle) were to be settled in the Hansi tahsil, especially north of the Delhi-Hansi-Hissar Road, overflow claims being taken to the Fatehabad tahsil for settlement in specified villages near Uklana Mandi and in the Nali area near Tohana.
(3) Claimants from the Hithar and Uttar circles of Lodhran tahsil were to be settled in the Eastern and Western Hariana circles of Bhiwani tahsil and in the Hansi tahsil south of the Delhi-Hansi-Hissar Road. The remaining claims of the Hithar and Uttar circles of Lodhran tahsil and of other parts of the tahsil were to be settled in the Sirsa tahsil;
(4) Claimants from the Mailsi and Vehari tahsils (other than those entitled for settlement in Karnal) were to be settled in the Fatehabad tahsil;
(5) Outside the Sirsa tahsil, all the canal-irrigated land of Hissar district was reserved for the colonists of the district and for claimants from the Multan district. Claimants of other districts could receive allotment in Bhiwani, Hansi, Hissar and Fatehabad tahsils, but this could only be of unirrigated land. The reason for this direction was that in the phase of temporary settlement certain displaced agriculturists who had other areas of allocation had come to occupy a number of the better villages. If, through the operation of rules applicable to temporary allottees, they were to remain in their villages of temporary settlement, the prospect of settling satisfactorily displaced persons from Multan district, the vast majority of whom had abandoned irrigated land, became adversely affected;
(6) From amongst claimants from the tahsils of Multan district, preference in canal irrigated land was to be given first to those who had abandoned land with perennial irrigation and only next to those who had abandoned land with non-perennial or Chahi-Nehri irrigation;
(7) For the Sirsa tahsil, allocation was made by specifying villages in order to accommodate displaced persons from different areas who had been allocated to the tahsil.
Displaced persons from Sind and Chenab circles of Muzaffargarh tahsil and Sind and Chenab circles of Alipur tahsil were to be settled in the Sirsa tahsil of Hissar district, unless they were entitled to continue in their areas of temporary settlement.
In the Loharu sub-tahsil, Amrain Bagar circle and Behl-Siwani circle of Bhiwani tahsil, displaced persons from grade II, III and IV villages of the Kachhi, Jhelum and Chenab circles of Jhang district and from the Thal circle were to be settled. In the notes on the Rohtak district the subsequent developments have been indicated.
Displaced persons from Lahore who held temporary allotment in the Hissar district were to be settled in the Sirsa tahsil.
Displaced persons from Montgomery who held temporary allotment in the Hissar district were to be settled in the Sirsa tahsil.
Bahawalpur
The categories of displaced persons from Bahawalpur who were to receive land in the Sirsa tahsil have been indicated in the note of Ferozepur district.
Amritsar
Colonists
The provision of 2000 standard acres was made to meet the needs of those Amritsar colonists who already held temporary allotment in the Hissar district and wished to remain in the district.
Multan
District
(See sub allocation adjustments in Karnal district).
About 10,000 standard acres including an area of 2000 standard acres of grade I land were earmarked in the Fatehabad tahsil for receiving overflow Multan claims from Karnal.
(See sub-allocation adjustments under Rohtak district).
Of the claims of Jhang district earmarked for Hissar tahsil or received as surplus to Rohtak, those of non-sitting allottees of Rohtak who abandoned at least 50 percent cultivated area in the from of perennial land were to be settled in village Agroha and the adjoining villages in Fatehabad tahsil (December 12, 1949). Later, (February 13,1950) it was agreed that superior claims from Jhang district should be met in the Tohana sub-tahsil (where villages were earmarked) and in the first and third grade villages of Hissar tahsil outside the Tohana sub tahsil. The claims of Garh Maharaja, a small town, were to be met at Tohana. Inferior claims were to be met in fourth grade villages in Hissar tahsil. An area of 4679½ standard acres in the Bhiwani tahsil originally earmarked for Jhang claimants was to be ‘potential reserve’ and no further allotments were to be made in the Bhiwani tahsil to displaced persons from Jhang .The unpopularity of settlement in the Bhiwani tahsil in the eyes of displaced persons from Jhang was repeatedly urged.
See sub-allocation adjustments under Gurgaon district.
See sub-allocation adjustments under Karnal district.
For the settlement of surplus Sheikhupura claims from Karnal certain villages in the Punjabi-speaking tract of tahsil Fatehabad and the Tohana sub-tahsil were earmarked.
See sub-allocation adjustments under Muzaffargarh district in Karnal and Rohtak districts.
Certain villages were earmarked in the Tohana sub-tahsil and the adjoining area of Fatehabad tahsil for the settlement of Muzaffargarh claims surplus to Karnal and to the Rohtak-Dadri area.
See sub-allocation adjustments under Amritsar district.
For Amritsar colonists for whom land was not available elsewhere villages in Fatehabad tahsil with a total area of 7999 standard acres where earmarked. Even this allocation did not, however, completely solve the problem.
As there were insufficient claims for the suburban land at Hansi, the balance was allotted to non-suburban claimants.
A scheme of allocation of the unallotted area of Hissar district, which amounted to 19907 standard acres, was drawn up on February 13, 1950. This provided for a reserve of 4679½ standard acres in Bhiwani tahsil and the allocation of the available area (villages were specified) to non-colonists of Multan division and to Amritsar colonists.
Owing to insufficient land being available in Sirsa tahsil a proportion of Bahawalpur claims originally earmarked for that tahsil was transferred to Fatehabad.