Muskan Mittal, School of Law, Lovely Professional University, Punjab
ABSTRACT
State owned land is managed in different ways across the world, but it is always a crucial element in the socio-economic development of any country. Especially due to increasing population pressure and urbanization, the problem of so-called encroachment of state land as well as many strategic interventions put in place to address the issue of encroachment. During the past 10 years this problem has gained recognition in India, because of the state very limited area. As the problem keep on growing and is overlooked as a general trend, everyone can blame the next to defend himself but that can neither reduce gravity of the problem nor the offence because encroachment in urban areas have toppled the whole planning, right from its framing to implementation and thereafter. So as, its impact is also getting varied with urbanization and now it is not just limited to natural resources alone but also ruining the heritage structures, slowing the movement of traffic in cities, wasting precious time of tourists in passing through congested streets, road accidents etc.
