The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is finalizing a proposal regarding framing rules to protect domicile rights in Jammu and Kashmir and examining the number of years required to live in JK to get domicile status.
Sources said though the Home Ministry in consultation with the LG-led Jammu and Kashmir government were finalizing a proposal regarding rules, but were yet to decide the number of years required to live in JK to get domicile status.
“It is not clear yet whether it will be 15 years or less to get domicile status. But MHA is working on it and will finalize the residency norms soon,” sources said.
Sources further said once the government finalises the rules of domicile status, locals and people who lived in Jammu and Kashmir for a long time will be able to get benefits of different schemes from jobs to land purchases.
Sources said that the Government was considering the special arrangement on the lines of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
domicile certificate could be important for goverment jobs, ownership of land, and seats in professional and college education in J&K, they said.
However sources said that the residency norm may not be applicable for industrial houses to buy land for setting up business ventures and construct quarters for their employees.
There is a possibility of providing relaxation to central government employees, who are from other parts of the country but have been living in the two UTs in last five years or more.
Also, central officials and their children, and students who are from other states but may have cleared their Class X or Class XII board exams in Jammu and Kashmir or Ladakh may be given residency.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that a domicile law would be coming “very soon”, following which the Land Act would also be implemented.
Sources said though the Home Ministry in consultation with the LG-led Jammu and Kashmir government were finalizing a proposal regarding rules, but were yet to decide the number of years required to live in JK to get domicile status.
“It is not clear yet whether it will be 15 years or less to get domicile status. But MHA is working on it and will finalize the residency norms soon,” sources said.
Sources further said once the government finalises the rules of domicile status, locals and people who lived in Jammu and Kashmir for a long time will be able to get benefits of different schemes from jobs to land purchases.
Sources said that the Government was considering the special arrangement on the lines of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
domicile certificate could be important for goverment jobs, ownership of land, and seats in professional and college education in J&K, they said.
However sources said that the residency norm may not be applicable for industrial houses to buy land for setting up business ventures and construct quarters for their employees.
There is a possibility of providing relaxation to central government employees, who are from other parts of the country but have been living in the two UTs in last five years or more.
Also, central officials and their children, and students who are from other states but may have cleared their Class X or Class XII board exams in Jammu and Kashmir or Ladakh may be given residency.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that a domicile law would be coming “very soon”, following which the Land Act would also be implemented.
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