Chapter 4 STANDING RECORD OF RIGHTS AND ITS MAKING

There shall be a standing record of rights for each abadi deh area, which shall comprise the following, namely: -

1. (i) the record of proprietary rights of each survey unit prepared under this Chapter;
2. (ii) the survey reports and maps prepared under Chapter III with dimensions;
3. (iii) the record of proceedings of the meetings of the village committee; and
4. (iv) such other document as may be prescribed or notified.

1. (1) The Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer, on his being designated as such, shall constitute a village committee for identifying the proprietary rights of the proprietors in the survey units.
2. (2) The Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer, in respect of the abadi deh of which the standing record of rights is to be prepared, shall inform the inhabitants of the area, in the manner prescribed, about the proposal to prepare such record for each of the survey unit.

1. (1) The Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer, after deliberations and consultations with the village committee and hearing the parties interested, shall, in a summary manner, and as may be prescribed, record the proposed entries of proprietors and their proprietary rights and of the boundaries of the survey unit in the standing record of rights, as on the appointed day.
2. (2) The entry of proprietor and his or its proprietary rights shall be recorded by the Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer in the name of –
   • (i) the owner of the built up dwelling and residential areas including its open or enclosed court yards, other vacant land and plots of owners not being a common area, shops and other establishments;
   • (ii) the panchayat and the municipal body for the common area, vacant land or plot not owned by any person; and
   • (iii) the Central, State Government, juristic person or other entity in respect of the land or institutions owned by it.
3. (3) In the conduct of exercise under sub-sections
4. (1) and
5. (2) if a survey unit is found to be sub-divided, which escaped the attention of the Survey Officer, the Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer shall assign a unique number to each such survey unit.

The survey map prepared by the Survey Officer under section 6 and the record of entries of proprietors in a survey unit prepared under section 9, shall be displayed at a conspicuous place in the village and a copy thereof supplied to the Panchayat through the Sarpanch of the village or the Chief Executive of the municipal body, as the case may be, in the manner, as may be prescribed.

1. (1) A person aggrieved by the demarcation of any boundary in the survey record, or an entry regarding the proprietary rights in the standing record of rights in a survey unit, may, within ninety days from the date of display of record under section 10, file objections about the correctness thereof before the Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer.
2. (2) The Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer after hearing the parties and perusing the record, if any, shall make necessary correction of the boundaries in the survey map, and ascertain the person best entitled to be recorded as the proprietor in the survey unit, and within sixty days of the expiry of the period under sub-section (1), pass an order in this regard by recording reasons. Explanation. - The recording of the proprietary rights of a person in a survey unit shall not be conclusive proof of ownership and shall be subject to corrections and alterations in appeal or revision under this Act as also the rights so determined by a judgment and order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
3. (3) An entry recorded in the standing record of rights under section 9, if no objection is filed within the period provided under sub-section (1), shall be treated as final.
4. (4) The Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer shall thereafter in the manner prescribed, publish the record as finalized, which shall incorporate an order that may be passed under sub-section (2).
5. (5) The standing record of rights finalized by the Assistant Recording and Resolution Officer shall be amended or modified in the event of an order passed under sub-section
6. (4) is set aside, modified or reversed in appeal, review or revision.