Jammu, July 2 -- In a meeting chaired by the chief minister Bhagwant Mann, the Punjab cabinet on June 02 gave its nod to the new land pooling policy, which Initially being launched in 27 cities and towns of the state.

After the meeting, in a press conference, renewable energy minister Aman Arora divulged that the new policy involves landowners, promoters, and companies as stakeholders in the development process and its aim is to curb illegal colonies by the land mafias in the state which are growing in an unplanned and haphazard way.

What the New Policy is?

If we see the claim under the new policy, the farmer, inter alia, will receive a 1,000-square-yard residential plot and a 200-square-yard commercial plot for every one acre of land ...