The Maharashtra Service Inams (Useful to Community) Abolition Act
The Maharashtra Service Inams (Useful to Community) Abolition Act
This Act regulates and abolishes historical land grants, revenue exemptions, and cash allowances, known as service inams, which were given in exchange for community services. It applies to inam holders, land occupants, and tenants within designated western and southern regions of Maharashtra. This legislation matters because it transitions feudal, conditional land holdings into the modern, uniform state land revenue system. It frees holders from compulsory community service obligations while allowing them to secure formal ownership of the land by paying a prescribed occupancy price. Additionally, the Act provides direct financial compensation to holders for their abolished customary rights and privileges.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Abolition of service inams and rights in respect of such inams.
- 4. Liability of service inam villages and lands to land revenue and persons liable to pay the same.
- 5. Resumption of service inam land and its regrant to holder.
- 6. Compensation in lieu of cash allowance or land revenue.
- 7. Method of compensation for abolition, etc., of other rights in land.
- 8. Court-fees.
- 9. Finality of award of Collector and decision of Revenue Tribunal.
- 10. Inquiries and proceedings to be judicial proceedings.
- 10A. Revisional powers in respect of awards made before commencement of Bom. XCIII of 1958.
- 11. Amount of compensation to be payable in transferable bonds.
- 12. Provisions of Bom. LXVII of 1948 to govern relations of holder and tenants.
- 13. Rules.
- 14. Discontinuance of application of certain enactments.
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