<p class="title"> State governments can now put to "public use" some enemy properties that were left behind by people who left India for Pakistan and China after 1965 and 1971 wars.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A notification was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on March 8 amending the guidelines for disposal of the Enemy Property Order, 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The move came amid the Centre's efforts to sell around 9,400 enemy properties, valued at around Rs 1lakh crore. In November last year, the government gave an in-principle clearance for the sale of 6.50 crore shares valued at around Rs 3,000 crore belonging to those people who left India for Pakistan and China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The order has been amended to facilitate "usages of enemy property by the state government exclusively for public use", the notification said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to a government report, India holds assets worth at least Rs 1.07 lakh crore, including 11,882 acres of land, belonging to people who migrated to Pakistan after 1965 and 1971 wars.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides this, there are 149 immovable enemy properties of Chinese nationals, spread over Karnataka, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.</p>
<p class="title"> State governments can now put to "public use" some enemy properties that were left behind by people who left India for Pakistan and China after 1965 and 1971 wars.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A notification was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on March 8 amending the guidelines for disposal of the Enemy Property Order, 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The move came amid the Centre's efforts to sell around 9,400 enemy properties, valued at around Rs 1lakh crore. In November last year, the government gave an in-principle clearance for the sale of 6.50 crore shares valued at around Rs 3,000 crore belonging to those people who left India for Pakistan and China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The order has been amended to facilitate "usages of enemy property by the state government exclusively for public use", the notification said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to a government report, India holds assets worth at least Rs 1.07 lakh crore, including 11,882 acres of land, belonging to people who migrated to Pakistan after 1965 and 1971 wars.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Besides this, there are 149 immovable enemy properties of Chinese nationals, spread over Karnataka, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.</p>
