brief govt. seed farms

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Brief Integrated Operation For Getting the Govt.

Seed Farms Back from Illegal Occupants / Lessee

Agriculture (Extension) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was established to facilitate thefarming community and disseminate modern agriculture practices recommended by the

agricultural scientists. The Department since its establishment is rendering its services in true

letter and spirit. It facilitates the farming community in provision of improved/certified seed of

cereal crops, besides a queue of mandatory duties. For the purposed the department owned

agricultural seed farms as its production units, most of these are situated in DIKhan. These farms

are located in the suburbs of DIKhan namely Rakh Zandani (1578 Acres); Rakh Manghan (884

Acres); Rakh Bund Kurai (994 Acres); Ratta Kulachi Farm (490 Acres) and Rakh Mahra (50

Acres). These Farms are the only source to provide farming community with improved/certified

seed of wheat, maize, pulses & oil seed crops.

Unfortunately, keeping in view there prime location, the opportunists aimed at to

get the land grabbed by hook or by crook.

In the past regime, these political activities, using their under hand means,

influenced the government and through District Lease Committee they succeeded to get

recommendations for allotment of these productive units to so called lessee. The land of those

farms were handed over to them on October 9, 2006.

The matter noticed by higher ups got the lease cancelled on July 4, 2007 with

constituting an Enquiry Committee on May 16, 2007 to probe in to the matter.

The Enquiry Committee recommended drastic action against miscreants.

Resultantly Mr. Innayatullah Baloach the then EDO Agriculture was dismissed, Ihsanullah Khan

Gandapur the then DOA Agriculture Dera , Sardar Ali and Karim Nawaz Baloach Farm

Managers were compulsorily retired while Salahuddin Farm Manager got minor penalty of

stoppage of 3 increments. All these knocked at the door of Provincial Service Tribunal and after

rejection from there; they went to the Supreme Court of Pakistan against this decision. The

Supreme Court, in its judgement announced on 27.4.2011, restored all these persons.


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On the other hand, the so-called lessee, unanimously succeeded in getting status

quo from the court and kept the land under their occupancy. At Govt. Seed Farm Rakh Zandani

986 Acres land were with illegal occupants out of which 287 Acres were un-reclaimed. The land

proposed for the construction of Prison which was returned back to the department were

forcefully occupied by some miscreants. 257 Acres of land proposed for Prime Minister House

Scheme which were also returned back to the Department also were with illegal occupants whilst

illegal lessee kept 342 Acres piece of land with themselves.

Similarly out of 290 Acres land at Government Seed Farm Ratta Kulachi some 77

Acres land was snatched and illegally occupied by illegal lessee. The Department of Agriculture

lost its ownership at Govt. Farm Rakh Mahra and all of its 50 Acres assaulted by the illegal

lessee.

The Status quo taken by illegal occupants has been terminated by the court on Jun 25, 2011

cancelling lease of plaintiff(s).

Seed is a basic unit in farming. When some one looses its production units and

victimized by politicised terrorism it brought economical instability weakening provincial

economy. It was a conspiracy which would lead to infertility of the provincial economy and

curse of poverty to the following generations.

The Honourable Minister Agriculture, keeping in view this entire chronic

situation, took personal interest, contacted concerned authorities emphasizing on the solution of

this prime issue of agriculture extension department. On the other hand, an MPA Mr. Israrullah

Khan Gandapur from Tehsil Kulachi, DIKhan has moved a Call Attention Notice in the

Provincial Assembly to get the house realized drastic situation. Provincial Assemblys Standing

Committee for Agriculture Sub-Committee No. 5 immediately called on a meeting on June 1st

2011 under which the committee decided to call all concerned in the next meeting which was

subsequently scheduled on 13th June 2011. In its second meeting the Honourable Minister

Agriculture, Advocate General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mr. Israrullah Khan Gandapur the MPA;

Secretary Revenue Board, Additional Secretary Agriculture, Director General Agriculture

(Extension), Dy. Director Agriculture (E&M) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Commissioner DIKhan,


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DCO DIKhan, District Police Officer DIKhan, Registrar Revenue DIKhan, EDO Agriculture

DIKhan etc. attended the meeting. After a thread bearing discussion, an integrated plan for

getting the land released was chalked out which was approved by the Chairman Standing

Committee for Agriculture, Sub committee No. 5 of Provincial Assembly. The Honourable

Minister declared it a challenge and a thread for survival of the Agriculture Department and

advised to leave no effort unturned in discharging the task.

On issuance of clear cut instructions from the highest forum of the province,

government functionaries moved on. On the direction of Secretary Agriculture Mr. Afsar Khan

and Commissioner DIKhan, the DCO DIKhan, Member Revenue Board, Director General

Agriculture (Extension), District Revenue Staff DIKhan and District Police Department have had

an integrated operation in three consecutive stages and on 18.6.2011 got 2208 Kanal 9 Marlas;on 30.6.2011 got 1449 Kanal 18 Marlas and in its last stage on July 1 st, 2011 2403 Kanal 6

Marlas back to the department. Some of pieces of land (1688 Kanal) had already taken back in

February 2011.

So through a series of utmost integrated efforts of Agriculture Department,

Revenue Department and District Administration an area of 6070 Kanal 13 Marlas of Govt. Seed

Farm Rakh Zandani; 619 Kanal 19 Marlas of Ratta Kulachi and 400 Kanal of Rakh Mahra Farm

is got released from the illegal occupants. Thus a total of 8769 Kanal 12 Marla land grabbed is

got back.

These un-tired & ruthless efforts of the listed staff (annexed list) made this

success possible despite life threats from the miscreants/illegal occupants to the Agriculture

Department Staff.

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