Panel reviews demarcation of border with UP

Haryana Polity and Governance

16-Jun-21

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A committee reviewed the progress of erecting pillars along the Yamuna River in Karnal to demarcate the Haryana-UP border. Similar pillars will be erected in four other districts — Panipat, Sonipat, Faridabad and Palwal.
Once constructed, the pillars will resolve the decades-old dispute among farmers of the two states concerning land ownership and possession.
The Survey of India is demarcating land based on the Dixit Award in 1975.
The entire work is being taken up as per the Alteration of Boundaries Act, 1997. Through GPS, the location of pillars can be determined.
396 pillars would be erected in the jurisdiction of Karnal district.
With the state government easing lockdown restrictions, the construction of pillars which will demarcate the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh border along the Yamuna has started.
The pillars will be numbered odd and even — odd number signifying land belonging to Haryana and even number will denote land belonging to Uttar Pradesh.
The height of each pillar will be 21.5 m — 15 m will be underground and 6 m above.
Since 1950s, several violent clashes have taken place among farmers of the two states over thousands of acres of land.
Every time the Yamuna changes its course when it is flooded, there is confusion about land ownership. Crops sown by farmers of one state are harvested by farmers of the other state, leading to clashes.
In the 1970s, the Dixit committee was set up to resolve the problem. It had demarcated the land in 1975, taking the flow of the Yamuna at that time as the border between the two states, but it did not put a permanent end to the problem.