BBMB Township Land Ownership and Lease Policy Dispute

dispute/ongoing

A dispute between the Punjab Government and the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) over ownership and leasing of land in Nangal and Talwara townships within Punjab. Punjab asserts that the land belongs to the state and rejects BBMB's authority to frame a lease policy for these properties. The land in Nangal township is over 800 acres. Punjab cites the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, and a 2014 report accepted by the Union Government in 2016, stating surplus land should be owned and administered by the state, not BBMB. The dispute concerns surplus land originally acquired for project construction but now considered surplus after project completion.