The Kangara district has identified over 70 benami properties occupied by the Tibetan government-in-exile “for which the process of vesting has commenced”, a senior district administration official said.
Six years after Himachal Pradesh government came out with a policy on benami properties occupied by Tibetans in the state, it has embarked upon an exercise to take over such estates, including the monastery of 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje.
Accordingly, the government has initiated action to take over 73 such properties.
The Kangara district has identified over 70 benami properties occupied by the Tibetan government-in-exile “for which the process of vesting has commenced”, a senior district administration official said.
Besides, over 200 cases have been pending in courts regarding disputes on benami properties occupied by the Tibetans. Officials said under the process, the Kagyu sect monastery, home of Karmapa since he fled from China, would also be vested in the name of the government.
As per the policy of the former Virbhadra Singh government, after the property is vested in the name of the Himachal government, the Tibetan government-in-exile would have to move an application to get property on lease.
The Tibetan-government in-exile had earlier moved a case for regularisation of its 73 benami properties in and around Dharamsala.
As per the 2005 policy, the declared benami properties would be initially vested in the name of Himachal government and then be allotted to The Dalai Lama Trust after 10% of the market value of the land is deposited.
The process for transferring these properties on a long-term lease would start after these properties are vested in the name of Himachal government.
However, counsels of Tibetan government-in-exile have demanded that the property should be transferred t the trust and not leased out.
The present market value of land in Mcleodganj, a suburb of Dharamsala in Kangra district, ranges between Rs2 crore and Rs25 crore per kanal.
By these standards, the Tibetan government-in-exile would have to shell out crores of rupees to get the possession of land regularised by way of lease.
The Tibetan government-in-exile, however, is insisting that government should charge the market value of 2005, the year in which the policy to regularise the properties was brought out.
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