Transfer or grant of pattas

(1) Every person acquiring ownership of any land by succession, estate or intestate, or by sale, gift, exchange, partition or by any other means shall be entitled for the transfer or grant of a patta for such land. (2) The Tahsildar shall, after publishing notice in the manner prescribed calling upon the owner and other persons known or believed to be interested in the transfer of patta or the grant of patta for such land and after holding an inquiry in the manner prescribed, by order, affect the transfer of patta or grant patta for such land. The Tahsildar shall thereafter get such land sub-divided, where necessary, in the manner prescribed. The costs incurred by the Government in connection with such sub-division shall be determined and recovered in the manner prescribed from the pattadars concerned in proportion to their shares.