The Goa, Daman and Diu Land Revenue (Revenue Surveys and Sub-Divisions of Survey Number) Rules, 1969
Published vide Notification No. RD/LRC/245/69-71/4, dated 16th February, 1971
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RD/LRC/245/69-71/IV. - In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of Section 199 of the Land Revenue Code, 1968 (9 of 1969) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf the Lieutenant Governor of Goa, Daman and Diu is hereby pleased to make the following rules:-
- Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Goa, Daman and Diu Land Revenue (Revenue Surveys and Sub-Divisions of Survey Number) Rules, 1969.
(2) They shall come into force at once.
- Definitions.- In these rules unless the context requires otherwise,-
(a) "Code" means the Goa, Daman and Diu Land Revenue Code, 1968;
(b) "Director" means the Director of Settlement and Land Records;
(c) "Section" means a Section of the Code.
- Survey number and sub-divisions.- (1) Every holding not less in area than the minimum fixed under Section 59 shall be separately measured, classified, assessed and defined by boundary marks, in the land records as a survey number.
(2) Every holding of which the area is less than such minimum shall be separately measured, classified and assessed and entered in the land records as a sub-division of that survey number in which it is directed to be included; it may also be separately demarcated if the Director so directs, provided that, the Director may require the persons interested in such holdings to pre-pay the costs or such portion of the costs as he thinks fit, of so demarcating the holding.
- Record of measurements.- All measurements shall be recorded in a book or embodied in a plane table map kept in such form as shall be prescribed by the Director for any survey. The said books or maps shall be preserved permanently as a record of the survey.
- Test of measurements.- The original measurements made by the subordinate survey officers employed for the purpose shall be tested by the officers in charge of measuring establishments in such manner and to such extent as the Director shall deem sufficient.
- Village maps.- Village maps shall be prepared under the orders of the Director showing each survey number and its boundary marks and such other details as may be specified by him, subject to general or special orders of the Government at the time of each survey.
- Classification of land.- For the purpose of assessment, all land shall be classed with respect to its productive qualities. The number of classes and their relative value reckoned in paise, shall be fixed under the orders of the Director with reference to the circumstances of the different tracts of the country to which the survey extends and to the nature of the cultivation.
- Field-books.- Every classes shall keep a field-book and record therein the particulars of his classification of each survey number and sub-division and the reasons which led him to place it in the particular class to which in his estimation it should be deemed to belong. Such field-book shall be preserved as permanent records of the survey.
- Notice to holders.- When any classing operations are undertaken, notice shall be given to the holders to enable them to represent defects and point out their own improvements.
- Test of classification.- A test of the original classification made by the subordinate officers employed for this purpose shall be taken by the officers in charge of classing establishments in such manner and to such extent as may be directed by the Director.
- Amalgamation of survey numbers and sub-divisions.- (1) Any survey number or a sub-division of a survey number may, upon the application of the holder, be amalgamated with any other coterminous survey number with the sanction of the Director provided that, the following conditions are satisfied, namely:-
(i) the total area on amalgamation does not exceed 16 hectares.
(ii) all the parcels of land proposed for amalgamation are held by the same holder upon the same tenure;
(iii) a common boundary is such that the amalgamation will materially facilitate cultivation:
Provided that, the limits imposed by or under condition (i) may be exceeded to such extent as the Director may by general or special order, sanction.
(2) Any sub-division may be amalgamated without prior sanction of the Director with any coterminous sub-division of the same survey number held by the same holder upon the same tenure.
(3) When such amalgamation is effected, the two or more portions of land shall become one and two entry or more portions of land shall become one and two entry in the land records, bearing the same distinguishing number as the first in series of the amalgamated numbers. Any boundary marks placed before such amalgamation shall be removed, and the village map corrected, accordingly.
- Application of rules 3 to 11.- (1) Rules 3 to 11 (both inclusive) shall, unless otherwise directed by the Government, be observed in the conduct of revenue surveys of lands used or which may be used for the purposes of agriculture.
(2) Matters of detail not provided for in the foregoing rules shall be determined in each survey in accordance with such general or special orders as the Director, acting under the general control of the Government, may, from time to time, issue.
- Non-agricultural land not to be classified in accordance with foregoing rules.- (1) Land of any of the kinds specified in sub-rule (2) shall be measured and mapped in accordance with rule 3 to 6 (both inclusive) but shall not be classified in accordance with rules 7 to 10.
(2) The lands referred to in sub-rule (1) are the following:-
(a) occupied lands, which are situated within an area in which a survey under rules 3 to 6 and 11 is in progress and which are used for any non-agricultural purpose;
(b) unoccupied lands, situated within any such area, which are deemed to be likely to be more in demand for building or industrial purposes than for agriculture; and
(c) all lands to which a survey is extended under Section 65.
- Maintenance of records.- (1) For all the lands which have in the past been surveyed or assessed or which shall be hereafter surveyed or settled under the provisions of the code and these rules, it shall be the duty of the Director-
(a) to cause to be corrected any arithmetical or clerical error, whenever discovered;
(b) to cause to be incorporated punctually in the land records, all changes in boundaries, areas, tenures and assessments either or survey numbers or of their sub-divisions which are made under orders of any competent authority under the code and these rules or any other law:
Provided that, where the assessment of any survey number has been fixed by a declaration under Section 75, such assessment shall not be increased upon the discovery of any mistake in classification, until the term of such declaration expires.
(2) Detailed instructions and forms shall be drawn up and maintained of the Director, subject to the orders and approval of the Government from time to time for the proper carrying out of this rule.
- Sub-division of survey numbers.- (1) Before field operations for division of a survey number into a sub-division are commenced a general notice shall be issued by the Mamlatdar and pasted in the village chavdi and proclaimed by beat of drum stating that the sub-divisions of survey numbers in the village are about to be measured according as they have been divided by the holders.
(2) Individual notices at least 10 days in advance shall be served by the Talathi upon the holders specifying the numbers or parts of numbers which are to be measured and the date on which the measurement operations would commence and warning the holders to be present on the field on the date so notified.
- Boundaries to be laid down.- (1) When there is no dispute, the survey officer shall, after recording to that effect, lay down the boundary of each sub-division according to the statement made by the holders.
(2) Where there is any dispute, the boundary to which it relates shall be measured and mapped in accordance with the claims of both the disputants, and the dispute entered in the register of disputed cases. After the dispute has been settled under the provisions of the code and rules made thereunder, the map shall be corrected accordingly, and the areas finally entered into the land records.
- Fees.- The fees to be recovered for making sub-divisions in cases to which clause (b) of Section 101 applies shall, be such as will cover the entire cost of measuring, assessing and mapping the sub-division; and such fees shall be assessed by the Director.
- Assessment.- The Proportionate assessment of sub-divisions to the land revenue settled upon the survey number shall be calculated according to the area and relative soil classification of the various sub-divisions. Detailed instructions shall be prescribed by the Director, subject to the approval of the Government, and may provide for the rounding off of fractions of ten paise.
- Formation of sub-division of alluvial land.- Alluvial land lawfully occupied by a person other than the holder of the adjoining land shall be formed into a sub-division and included in the adjoining survey number.
- Entry of survey numbers and sub-divisions in records.- The area and assessment of land surveyed and assessed to land revenue under the provisions of Chapters V, VI and VII of the Code, shall be recorded and maintained:-
(a) in the case of survey numbers, in Form A if the land is used for an agricultural purpose and in Form B, if it used for a purpose other than agriculture; and
(b) in the case of sub-division of survey numbers in Form C.
Form "A"
(See rule 20)
Village........................... Taluka............... Year 19...........
| Land Register, Standard Rates per acre | Dry Crop | Garden | Rice | Other | Village | Year of Introduction, Expiry of Settlement, Survey Group II, date of Instalment |
Details of Cultivable land and Assessment
| Survey No. | Tenure | Total Area | Deduct Unculturable, Unassessed and Unavailable for Cultivation | Agricultural | Garden | Dry-Crop | |||||
| Kind | Area | Assessment | Kind | Area | Assessment | Kind | Area | Assessment | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) |
| Ha. | Rs. P. | Ha. | Rs. P. | Ha. | Rs. P. | ||||||
| Rice | Others | Details of Water Share included in (12), (15) and (18) | Public Rights of Way and Easements | Particulars Alterations | Orders sanctioning Changes | Remarks | |||||
| Kind | Area | Assessment | Kind | Area | Assessment | Kind | Amount | ||||
| (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) | (19) | (20) | (21) | (22) | (23) | (24) |
| Ha. | Rs. P. | Ha. | Rs. P. | Rs. P. | |||||||
Abstract
| Area Assessment | ||||
| Ha. Rs. P. | ||||
| A. Land for Cultivation- | ||||
| 1. Assessed- | ||||
| (a) Occupied - | (i) Ordinary Tenure | |||
| (ii) Restricted Tenure | ||||
| (b) Unoccupied | ... | |||
| (c) Land free or reduced by Special Agreement | ... | |||
| (d) Inam (of which in N. A. use Ha.) | ... | |||
| Total Assessed | ... | |||
| II. (a) Unassessed | ... | |||
| (b) Unassessed and assigned for Special Use (e. g., agricultural farm, rice breeding centre, etc.) | ... | |||
| Total - A | ... | |||
| Area Assessment | ||||
| Ha. Rs. P. | ||||
| B. Land not available for cultivation- | ||||
| I. Uncultivable- | ||||
| (a) Pot Kharab | ... | |||
| (b) Rivers and Nalas | ... | |||
| Total | ... | |||
| II. Assigned for public and special uses- | ||||
| (a) Forest (wood and plots-Ha) | ... | |||
| (b) Kuran | ... | |||
| (c) Free-Pasture, cattle-stand | ... | |||
| (d) Village site | ... | |||
| (e) Tank | ... | |||
| (f) Burial ground | ... | |||
| (g) Railways | ... | |||
| (h) Pot kharab assigned for roads, water courses, etc. | ... | |||
| (i) Roads and Paths | ... | |||
| (j) Cantonment lands (military camp, shooting range, etc.) | ... | |||
| (k) School | ... | |||
| (l) Dharmashalas | ... | |||
| Total | ... | |||
| III. Leased out or granted (on conversion of use) of S. N. for N. A. uses- | ||||
| (a) Bungalows and other human residences | ... | |||
| (b) Factories, Mills and Industrial buildings | ... | |||
| (c) Brick-fields, Timber yards, etc., (not built on) | ... | |||
| (d) Play-grounds, etc. | ... | |||
| (e) Salt-pans | ... | |||
| (f) School | ... | |||
| (g) Dharmashalas | ... | |||
| Total | ... | |||
| Total – B | ||||
| Grant Total of Village | ||||
| Examined (date) .................................... | ||||
| (Signed) .................................. Aval Karkun | ||||
| (Signed) ................................... Mamlatdar | ||||
| Date ............. (Signed) ............ | ||||
| Talathi. | ||||
Form "B"
(See rule 20)
Register of N.A. Occupancies
Name of Village ......................... Taluka .......................
| Serial No. | Description of land | Area | Nature and terms of the grant | Amount of occupancy price, if any | Annual Revenue | Period for which revenue is fixed | Authority | Name of the first lessee or Grantee | Remarks (each entry should be signed by Mamlatdar) | |
| From | To | |||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | |
Form "C"
Register of Area and Assessment of Sub-Division
For use in Village.............. Taluka............... District................
| Serial No. | Survey No. | Sub-Division No. Falni No. | Total area | Pot Kharab or unarable | Arable | Assessment | Sub-Division No. |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| No. of Sub-Division and Falni of which the Sub-Division is composed | Total area | Pot Kharab or unarable | Arable | Provisional Assessment | Total Assessment of the Sub-Division | Name of the occupant | Remarks |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |