section 7
Preparation of the draft record of rights
The Odisha Special Survey and Settlement Act, 2012General201229 sections
Statutory text
- (1) The Director may engage one or more Agencies having such qualification as may be prescribed who shall be responsible for preparation of preliminary record of rights in whole or in part of the revenue village including preparation of notices for the land owners and their services to the land owners concerned and inviting objections thereon and for collections and compilations of such objections to the notices in the prescribed manner.
- (2) There shall be constituted in every revenue village concerned a team of persons to update and prepare basic record of rights with the assistance of such Agency and licensed surveyor.
- (3) A team of persons referred to in sub-section (2), shall include an officer or employee of the Tahasil office concerned and any other designated officer or employee as the Sub-Collector may appoint.
- (4) While preparing the basic record of rights, the concerned team of persons shall take into account to-date ground realities, changes, transfers, sub-divisions, partitions, hereditary devolution, exchanges and the like, in matters of determining right, title and ownership of the land holdings.
- (5) Such team of persons shall identify and demarcate lands, Government lands, lands treated as common property resources and the like and record the same as such in the record of rights.
- (6) Claims and objections, if any, shall be disposed of in such manner and by such officer not below the rank of a Tahasildar as may be prescribed and the land records prepared in the aforesaid manner, shall be called the draft record of rights.
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