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The 1[Maharashtra] Merged Territories Miscellaneous Alienations Abolition Act

The 1[Maharashtra] Merged Territories Miscellaneous Alienations Abolition Act

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The Maharashtra Merged Territories Miscellaneous Alienations Abolition Act regulates historical feudal land grants, tax exemptions, and traditional privileges, known as alienations, within the merged territories of Maharashtra. It applies to traditional landholders, such as girassias and watandars, as well as the tenants actually occupying these lands. The law matters because it modernizes the region's land system by abolishing these outdated, tax-free feudal statuses, making all such properties subject to standard state land revenues. It grants occupancy and ownership rights to actual cultivators, allowing them to legally own and transfer property upon paying designated fees, thus simplifying the public tax administration.

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Chapter I Preliminary →

  1. 1Short title, extent and commencement.
  2. 2Definitions.
  3. 3Act not to apply to certain kinds of alienations.

Chapter II Abolition of alienations and conferment of occupancy rights →

  1. 4Abolition of alienation and rights and incidents in respect thereof
  2. 5Liability of alienated lands to payment of land revenue.
  3. 6Occupancy rights in respect of alienated lands held under community service inam.
  4. 7Occupancy rights in respect of lands held under watan.
  5. 8What persons to be occupants in Wanta or Giras.
  6. 9Occupancy rights in respect of alienated land to which section 6, 7 or 8 does not apply.
  7. 10Effect of failure to pay occupancy price.
  8. 11All public roads, etc., situate in alienated land to vest in Government.
  9. 12Rights to trees.
  10. 13(Deleted).

Chapter III COMPENSATION AND AWARD THEREOF →

  1. 14Compensation in respect of alienation consisting of assignment of land revenue.
  2. 15Compensation in respect of allowances in cash or kind.
  3. 16Compensation in respect of property referred to in section 11.
  4. 17Method of awarding compensation to alienee.
  5. 18Method of awarding compensation for abolition, etc., of rights of other person in property.
  6. 19Provisions of Land Acquisition Act, 1894, applicable to award.
  7. 20Appeal against Collector’s award.
  8. 21Procedure before Revenue Tribunal.
  9. 22Limitation.
  10. 23Court-fees.
  11. 24Finality of award and decision of Revenue Tribunal.
  12. 25Inquiries and proceedings to be judicial proceedings.
  13. 26Amount of compensation to be payable in transferable bonds except in certain cases.

Chapter IV Miscellaneous →

  1. 27Alienees to deliver records to authorized officers.
  2. 28Provisions of Bom. LXVII of 1948 to govern the relations of Landlord and tenants.
  3. 29Rules.
  4. 30Saving.

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