India, July 3 -- The Punjab Cabinet has given its nod to amend the state's land pooling policy, whereby it would offer more benefits to landowners.

The cabinet, which met on Wednesday evening, also approved to waive facilitation charges for citizen-centric services, which include birth and caste certificates in the wake of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Addressing the media here on Thursday, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said it has been decided that landowners will get a commercial plot of 210 square yards as against 200 square yards now for giving every one acre of land under the land pooling policy.

Under the present policy, a landowner is entitled to get 1,000 square yards of a residential pl...