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The allotment authority shall make allotment first of all the surplus area and the tenants' permissible area deemed to have vested in the State Government under sub-section (3) of Section 1~ and thereafter the surplus area acquired from time to time under sub-section (1) of Section 12, in each village in favour of eligible persons after observing the following principles and procedure namely: (i) inter se priority amongst the eligible Categories shall be in the same order in which these have been listed in paragraph 4, that is Category A will take precedence over Category B and Category B will take precedence over (Category BB) and so on; (ii) eligible persons of category A will be allotted land to the extent of permissible area under this Act out of the area held by them; (iii) eligible persons of Category B will be allotted the areas held by them; . (iv) inter se priority amongst the eligible persons category-wise falling in categories (88, C, CC, 0, E,F,H and I) shall be arranged in the same order as the extent of .area acquired for their resettlement with the smallest landowner coming on the top. Where several claimants are entitled to the same priority, the allotment authority shall prepare a list of their names in alphabetical order in Hindi (Devnagri Scrip and the allotment to them shall be made according to the serial number of the list so prepared. The same principle of alphabetical order shall be .followed in the case of persons falling in Category G. The land owned by the claimants and the members of their families as on 1st day of January, 1976 shall be reckoned for the purposes of this paragraph; (v) the extent of surplus are allotted to the various Categories mentioned in paragrpah 4 will be as follows:(A) CATEGORY A.- to the extent of the tenants' permissible area or the permissible area under the Act, whichever is less; (B) CATEGORY B. - to the extent of the area allotted to and held by the eligible persons; (BB) CATEGORY BB.-Two hectares of C category land or land of equivalent value, provided that the total area of land, including the land already held by the allottee shall not exceed two hectares, of C Category land or land of its equivalent value; (C) CATEGORY C.-to the extent prescribed in Section 9A of the Punjab Law or Section 7 A of the Pepsu Law, and the rules made thereunder; (CC) CATEGORY CC.-two hectares of C Category land or land of equivalent value: Provided that the total area of land, including the land already held by the allottee shall not exceed two hectares of C Category land or land of its equivalent value"; (D) CATEGORY D TO 1.- two hectares of C category land or land of equivalent value subject to the condition that the area allotted plus.the area, if any, already held by the allottee shall be exceed two hectares of C Category land or land of its equivalent value; (vi) the allotment authority shall first satisfy the requirements of applicants. in a village, falling in Categories (A, B, BB, C and CC) in that order, by allotment to them of the area available in the same village; (vii) after making allotment to persons falling in Categories (A,B, BB,C and CC), the allotment authority shall take the following steps, namely (a) three separate lists of eligible persons belonging to Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes and others falling in Categories D,E,F,G,H. and I. shall be prepared for allotment of the remaining surplus area in the village to them; (b) the remaining available surplus area in the village after satisfying the claims of Categories (A, B,BB,C and CC). shall be sub-divided into three lists for allotment to members of the Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes and other and each list shall contain the particulars mentioned in paragraph 3. Forty per cent of such surplus area shall first be earmarked. according to the numerical order of field· (Khasra) numbers, for eligible persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the next ten per cent. according to the numerical order of field (Khasra) numbers, shall be earmarked· for eligible persons belonging to the Backward Classes and the balance fifty per cent according to the numerical order of filed (Khasra) numbers shall be earmarked for the remaining eligible persons. Inter se priority within each of the lists mentioned in sub-clause (a) shall be according to the principles laid down in clause (1); (c) allotment of land shall be made to the persons in the lists mentioned in sub-clause (a) from the respective area earmarked for them as in sub clause (b); (d) in case the surplus area reserved for allotment to Scheduled Castes or a portion thereof remains unutilised after such allotment, such unutilised area shall be added to the area earmarked for allotment to the Backward Classes. If the total area thus becoming available for allotment to the Backward Classes or a portion thereof remains unutilised after such allotment, such unutilised area shall be added to the area earmarked for the other eligible persons in the village. Likewise overflow of surplus area earmarked for allotment to the other eligible persons shall first be added to the area reserved for Scheduled Castes and the unutilised balance, if any, to the area earmarked for the Backward Classes; (viii) the eligible persons falling in Category 0 shall be allotted land only in case they relinquish their existing tenancies; . (ix) while making the allotment to eligible persons falling in Categories (C, CC, 0, E, F, G, H and I), the allotment authority shall confirm to the numerical order of field (Khasra) numbers mentioned in the lists prepared under paragraph 3 and sub-clause (b) of the clause (vii); (x) where mortgage rights in respect of any land falling within the surplus area have vested in the State Government under the proviso to sub section (1) of Section 12 of the Act, such land shall not be allotted to any person, until the Government becomes its full owner. The Government may, however, give such land on lease to any person from year to year.