AMN / NEW DELHI
The Centre has allowed state governments to put to public use some enemy properties that were left behind by people who migrated to Pakistan since the Partition and to China after the 1962 Sino-Indian war.
According to an official notification, the guidelines for disposal of the Enemy Property Order, 2018, has been amended to facilitate usages of Enemy Property by the state government exclusively for public use.
Enemy properties are those properties that were left behind by the people who took citizenship of Pakistan and China.
There are over nine thousand such properties left behind by Pakistani nationals and over one hundred by Chinese nationals. The estimated value of all enemy properties is approximately one lakh crore rupees.