Reserve of Lands and CT Survey of Land Revenue Act provisions

- Lokabhimukha Guidance - H.S. Patel IAS (Retd.)

- Impairment of Reserve should be done in the form of campaign

India is an agriculture-led country and even today India's economy is predominantly based on agriculture and accordingly revenue collection from agricultural land was an important source of revenue for the state. Before the arrival of the British - Sher Shah Suri first determined the shape of the land (revenue) according to the type of land. In the province of Bombay and in present-day Gujarat, there was a system of 'raiyatwari' in which the revenue was paid directly to the state in the area under British rule. This revenue system is known as survey settlement in which Mumbai measurement and jamabandhi rules are collected. G. Gordon I.C.S. Prepared by the officer, in which the methods of land measurement and the method of determining the revenue according to the type of land is known as settlement. Then Anderson developed a revenue accounting system known as the Revenue Account Manual. And accordingly village sample no. 1 to 18 which includes the administration of the entire revenue village.

The said background was described to understand the basic principles of survey and settlement. In the provisions of the Land Revenue Act-1879, a provision has been made for the survey of lands i.e. survey and measurement and provision has been made that the revenue on land will be revised every 30 years and as per the provisions of this Act the powers have been given to the state to reserve any area. After independence in Gujarat, most of the villages were surveyed in 1955-56 and based on that, a permanent chart (area) of each village was prepared which is still accepted as a basis. Although the pressures and other defects of the survey number applicable in the non-government numbers remain, as per previous survey measurements the record 7/12 written on the basis of the permanent bill and first promulgation by the concerned Provincial Officer, was largely valid to the occupants of the concerned survey number and 7/ of this record. The period of 12 was ten years, so as part of rewriting, the record was again divided into sub-parts of the survey numbers, the original record was written and certified by the concerned provincial authority.

Jamnagar and Mehsana districts were taken up for reserve as a pilot project by the State Government under the Government of India scheme, and after the initial pilot project outsourced this work to a private agency, covering all the districts of the State, thus as per the original record in the Reserve i.e. D .I.L.R. The revenue record of the original village which was maintained by was to be taken as base and at the time of measurement of the concerned village the measurement was to be done in the presence of the occupier/occupant of the concerned village number and the village council was to be called and informed. But instead of doing that by a private agency which was supposed to measure in person with the occupants/occupiers, the record was measured and submitted on the basis of Bisag and Google image and accordingly the record was declared as certified by the concerned provincial authorities in a hurry, a number of errors are still being rectified. Couldn't. In many places it has also happened that the area of ​​Government/Gauchar survey numbers containing the interest of the Government has been reduced or the land has been handed over to those who have been granted government land years ago and instead of land surveying in developed areas or along main roads, The area is indicated. These are just examples. In many places reasonable cases such as division of the original survey number is given as a sub-portion of the original survey number in the new survey instead of the sub-portion being given an independent survey number, in case of exchange as per the original survey number also the numbers are reversed thus such basic defects which are Even in record-based correction, earlier it was said to appeal to the Deputy Collector to correct such area, but since there are mostly such cases in the entire state, it was said to change only on the basis of the application of the concerned owner and this process has also taken more than five years. This procedure has not been completed yet, district-wise massive applications are pending. In some districts of the state, many villages have not yet been promulgated as per reserve.

Thus, as a part of updating the revenue records, it was intended that the map of the survey number of all the holders would be available and the exact area would be available, the area with the exact demarcation as part of not putting pressure on the government, public useful lands has not been achieved. .

A team of officials of the Survey Department formed a team of officers of the Survey Department to resolve the questions that arose after the reservation, the original survey carried out with the DILR, along with notes on the survey record multiplication book, the permanent survey of the village along with the reserve as per the reserve, the changes in the area, and that specific evidence. Independent measurement agencies may be retained or retired D.I.L.R. if required. / It is necessary to carry out action to correct the deficiencies of the reserve in the form of campaign keeping SLR and only then the land holders will get the rights according to the area of ​​the land they hold. We will elaborate in the next article on urbanization / industrialization in current times.