By IRNA,
New Delhi : The 61-day old agitation over the Amarnath land row in Jammu region was suspended early Sunday after an agreement was reached between a government panel and a conglomerate of Hindu groups.
The Agreement between the four member panel led by Advisor to Governor Dr. S.S. Bloeria and four member committee of Sangarsh Samiti was reached at the fourth round of talks which began late last night and concluded early this morning.
As per the agreement, land has been kept at the disposal of Amaranth Shrine Board for the yatra period without any payment to be made by Shrine Board while the proprietary rights of the land will not undergo any change and will remain with forest department, said media reports received from Jammu.
Besides, the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board will be reconstituted and all the members will be from Jammu and Kashmir State and Governor will continue to be its Chairman.
The agreement effectively ends the more than two-month-long agitation in Jammu for the restoration of the land to the shrine board .
The agitation began after the state government cancelled July 1 its earlier decision of allotment of nearly 40 hectares of land to the board.
The state government had cancelled the allotment as the decision had triggered protests in the valley.
The protests were fuelled by the fear that the demographic character of Muslim majority Kashmir would be altered with the settling of outsiders on the piece of land allotted to the shrine board.