Overview
- Eight Tura localities received periodic lease documents covering 452 bighas after decades of unresolved encroachment disputes.
- The land remains government revenue land, with households getting legal tenure through leases that are renewable at nominal rates.
- The scheme is voluntary, with participating areas covered now and a second phase planned for localities that have not yet consented.
- Authorities led surveys, drone mapping and public hearings over two years, and the Cabinet cleared the settlement on November 26.
- Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma linked the decision to P. A. Sangma’s longstanding vision and dismissed electoral motives for the timing.