Draft scheme relating to Podu cultivation and pasture and forests

Environmental196531 sections5 chapters

Chapter II PREPARATION OF SCHEMES

Statutory text

(1) Where action has been taken under clause
- (a) of section 9 the Collector shall with a view to diminish the wasting effects of the system of podu cultivation on the soil and the gradual abolition of the system prepare a draft scheme providing for the control of such cultivation by rotational closure of the blocks or by otherwise regulating, restricting or prohibiting the same within the area: Provided that no person having a right to cultivate any land shall be prohibited from adopting the system of podu cultivation therein, unless in lieu thereof other lands of similar productivity are allotted to him by the Collector in the prescribed manner.
(2) Where action has been taken under clause
- (b) of section 9 the Collector shall with a view to the development and maintenance of pasture lands and forest growth in the area prepare a draft scheme providing for the execution of such works as may be in his opinion necessary and for the said purpose for closing from time to time such portions of the communal lands to grazing and exercise of other rights, as the Collector may consider best suited to the circumstances obtaining in the area.

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