section 23
Grant of land on occupancy price
The Maharashtra Resettlement of Project Displaced Persons Act, 1976General197632 sections
Statutory text
- (1) After the publication of the sanctioned scheme in the Official Gazette under section 21, the Deputy Director shall, subject to the provisions of section 25, grant land, on payment of occupancy price, to the displaced persons in accordance with the provisions of the sanctioned scheme; and thereupon, except as expressly provided by this Act, the provisions of the Code and rules made thereunder which provide for disposal of Government lands shall apply to such grants as they apply in relation to Government land granted under the Code.
- (2) Where the occupancy price payable by any displaced person in respect of the agricultural land granted to him is not paid as provided in sub-section (1), the Deputy Director may, if he is satisfied that the delay in granting the land under sub-section
- (1) is likely to result in land remaining fallow, put such displaced person in possession of the land from the commencement of the agricultural year next following the date of the publication of the sanctioned scheme in the Official Gazette, subject to the following conditions, namely:—
- (i) if the displaced person fails to pay the occupancy price, he shall be deemed to have forfeited his right to the grant of the land as provided in the sanctioned scheme;
- (ii) in case of such failure, he shall be continued in possession of the land as a lessee only upto the expiry of the said agricultural year on payment to the State Government of such rent as the Deputy Director may determine;
- (iii) on the expiry of the said agricultural year, the displaced person shall vacate the land, and if he fails to do so, he shall be liable to be summarily evicted in accordance with the provisions of the Code;
- (iv) after the displaced person vacates, or is evicted from, the land as provided in condition (iii), the land may be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the Code and the rules made thereunder in respect of grant of Government lands on payment of occupancy price;
- (v) if the displaced person fails to pay the rent, it shall be recoverable from him as an arrear of land revenue.
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