Classes of tenure-holder and sub-tenure holder

(1) There shall be, for the purposes of this Act, only one class of tenure-holder, that is to say, 'Bhumidhar' and one class of sub-tenure holder, that is to say, 'Asami'. (2) Tenure holder means a person who holds land directly under and is liable to pay land revenue for that land to the State, and sub-tenure holder is a person who holds land from a tenure-holder or Gaon Sabha and is liable to pay rent therefor to the tenure-holder or a Gaon Sabha: Provided that land given in exchange to a tenure-holder or a sub-tenure holders, as a result of consolidation of holdings, shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be land originally held by the tenure holder or the sub-tenure holder, as the case may be.