Odisha to amend OPLE Act to provide relief to homestead landless

BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Saturday introduced the Odisha Prevention of Land Encroachment (Amendment) Bill, 2025, in the Assembly to bring further clarity to homestead landless persons or families living in rural areas, and the settlement of government land under unauthorised occupation for housing purposes.

The Bill introduced by Revenue Minister Suresh Pujari proposes to bring in a necessary amendment in the 1972 Act to the effect that a person who owns homestead landless than one-twenty fifth of an acre, subject to fulfilling other criteria, shall also be considered as a homesteadless person.