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LAND GRANTS FOR MILITARY PENSIONERS. [United Press Association.] Delhi, December 12. For years it has been the practice of the Government to reward deserving Indian military pensioners with grants of valuable land in the Punjauh and Canal colonies, where extensive irrigation has brought into cultivation enormous areas of new land, for which there is keen competition. Recently the Punjauh Government, with the approval of the Government of India, have in the latest colony decided to increase the allotment of 103,000 acres, reserved for army pensioners, to 178,000. Grants will be made at the end of the year of the additional part of 103,000, which will he as rewards for services in the present war . The additional 75,000 acres will he specially reserved for this purpose, and will he granted to Indians distinguishing themselves in the present campaign, or their heirs. The policy will meet with the widest approal .in the Punjauh, which is the best recruiting ground for the Indian army.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 297, 14 December 1914, Page 8
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162India Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 297, 14 December 1914, Page 8
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