Prescription of standards of cultivation and management

(1) With a view to bring agricultural economy to a higher level efficiency the Government may, by rules, regulate standards of efficient cultivation and management. (2) Such rules may provide for the issue of directions as regard the methods of agriculture to be adopted, for the use of improved seeds, for the proper maintenance of embankments and bunds, for the sale of surplus food grains and for ensuring proper wages and terms of employment to agricultural workers, for the maintenance of regular and accurate accounts in respect of cultivation, and for the issue of such other direction as may be necessary or desirable for the efficient utilisation of lands. (3) Subject to the rules made under sub-section (1), the Government may by order published in the Official Gazette prescribe and programme referred to above he shall — (4) If any tenant makes any default in observing the standards of programme referred to above he shall — (i) for the first season in which the default occurs, be issued a warning; (ii) for the next season in which a default occurs, be liable to pay additional rent to the landlord of ten per cent over and above the rent payable by him, if the default is not due to any act of omission on the part of the landlord; and (iii) for the succeeding season in which the default occurs again be liable to be evicted from the land under an order of the Mamlatdar. (5) If any landlord makes any default in observing the standards of programmes referred to above, he shall be liable to forego in favour of the tenant ten per cent of the rent due to him if such default occurred more than once in a year. (6) The penalties provided in sub-sections (4) and (5) shall be in addition to the penalties if any, provided by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force. (1) Disputes entered in the register of disputed cases and the entries in the mutation register shall be certified in the village or in its neighbourhood by a revenue or survey officer not below the rank of an Awal Karkun as far as possible within one year from the date of making the entry in the register. For this purpose the certifying officer shall give intimation in Form XI to the talathi sufficiently in advance. (2) On receipt of the intimation the talathi shall issue notices in Form XII to the persons interested in the mutation entries to be certified and the disputes entered in register of disputed cases at least fifteen days before the date fixed for certification of the mutation entry asking them to be present at the appointed time and place and further informing them that if they fail to remain present, the dispute will be decided and the mutation entries will be certified by the certifying officer in their absence. (3) At the appointed time and place the certifying officer shall read out the mutation entries which are undisputed in the presence of the parties interested in such entries who may be present. If the correctness of an entry is admitted, the certifying officer shall record such admission in the mutation register and add an endorsement under his signature that the entry has been duly certified. If an error is noticed in the entry by the Certifying Officer and such error is admitted by the persons interested who may be present, the Certifying Officer shall correct the entry and certify the corrected entry as aforesaid. (4) The Certifying Officer shall then decide each dispute entered in the register of disputed cases by holding a summary inquiry and shall record his decision in the said register. He shall also record in column 4 of the mutation register the order passed by him about the mutation entry in such decision and further make an endorsement under his signature to the effect that the mutation entry as modified by his order is certified by him. (5) Where the mutation entry is made as a result of item (ii) of sub-rule (4) of rule 33, the Certifying Officer shall certify the entry after verifying it.