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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as much as we think about setting up a Fund to buy land to settle squatters, we should think about those parcels of land which are lying idle and not being put to good use. That is the way to go. We should have a clear policy that defines who a squatter is. The registration of squatters in every district, division and location should be started and put in a Government data base. This will prevent people emerging from nowhere when squatters are being settled. We have a settlement scheme which has created a lot of hullabaloo in my constituency. You must have even read in the newspapers that I am at loggerheads with the administration because a quarter of those people who are being settled on that land own their own land nearby, whereas the genuine squatters are being pushed out by the Provincial Administration. In order to avoid this kind of scenario, I suggest that we register all squatters wherever they are so that we know them even as we look around for the land to be bought. That will help the administration not to settle the wrong people. That is something that will give us a plus when we enact this law. Settlement of people in the past has been haphazard and has always depended on who is influential and can settle those he wants to. It was not guided by any legal framework."
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