The Odisha Offices of Village Police (Abolition) Act, 1964
The Odisha Offices of Village Police (Abolition) Act, 1964
This legislation regulates the formal disbandment of traditional village policing institutions across the state of Orissa. It applies to customary village police officers, including Chaukidars, Dafadars, Jhankars, and Kalos, along with co-sharers and tenants cultivating land attached to these customary posts. The law officially abolishes these hereditary administrative positions, terminates all associated service obligations, and resumes service-linked land grants back to the state government. To cushion the loss of livelihood, the Act grants former officers occupancy rights over their land or provides cash solatium and land allotments. This law reshaped rural governance by transitioning local security into modern civil public administration.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Abolition of Offices of Village Police
- 4. Settlement of lands and solatium
- 5. Submission of records
- 6. Settlement to be free of premium
- 7. Procedure to be followed in proceedings
- 8. Appeal and revision and bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts
- 9. Authorities to exercise certain powers of Civil Court
- 10. Power to make rules
- 11. Effect on corresponding laws
- 12. Power to remove doubts and difficulties
- 13. Repeal and savings
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