Jammu Tawi, Sept. 17 -- Private landowners have started vacating settlements rented out to illegal immigrants as the Jammu administration has begun major action here against settlements of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees in various parts of the city.

The process has been initiated to vacate several such settlements in different parts of the city as the administration has moved into action against Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees who have been living in Jammu for more than a decade.

Notably, in August, a high-level panel examining demographic changes visited one of the biggest clusters in the Narwal area of Jammu, housing several hundred families of illegal (Rohingya) immigrants, for on-the-spot assessment of the situation and the impac...