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    TVA BOK 0009893 A Manual of Instructions For Conducting Resettlements in The Madras Presidency

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    ‘THE RESETTLEMENT MANUAT,> Srorion I. General principles relating to resetilementa. ‘According to the immomorial custom of: the country, the State is entitled to a share of the produce of the land. The commuted money vols oh wah aha iy ext “ nussser ment.’” As stoted in paragraph 1 (1) of B.S.0. No. 1, the assessment is on tha land and does mob depend on the description of the produce or on the ease or the circumstances of the person who holds the land. ‘The procedure by which the assessment is determined. is styled a scttlomont of the land revenue. In this Presidency the settlement of the ryot- wari lands is ordinarily made for a period of 80 years. ‘The initial settlement of the ryot- wari lands has been completed in alll the distriets ‘of the Presidency. The general principles on which the rates of assessment have been fixed are indicated in paragraph 2 below. 2. Lands aro classified with reference to their mechanical composition and are further subdivided into sorts or grades with reference to their chemical and physical properties and other circumstunées affecting their fertility. The staple product or grain for wet and dry fonds in each tract is aluo determined and the quantity of such product or grain whieh each sort or grade of soil is likely to yield is estimated. A certain percentage is deducted from such gross produce as an allowanco for vicissitudes of season and for unprofitable areas included in Koldings. ‘The net produce is then converted into money at the commutation rate which is generally based on the average recorded price of the staple product during the 20 non-famine years immediately preceding the sottlement operations, a suitable deduction being made from such average price on account of cartage and merchants’ profits. ‘The cost of cultivation is estimated and deducted from the money value thus arrived at, The rate of assessment is then fixed so as not to exceed one-half of the net money va:ue. ‘The rate sa fixed is furtber adjusted in the case of dry lands with reference to the position of the villages in which the lands are situated and in the case of wot lands with reference to the efficiency of the irrigation source. 8. The assestmont imposed on ryotwari lands at a settlement in accordance with the procedure indicated above is liable to revision on the expiry of the period for which such. settlement was made, ‘The procedure by which the revision of assessment is made is called resettlement. The Government have undertaken to refrain rom enhancing the assessment on account of any additional value which may have been imparted to the land by improvements effected by the ryols even though they have been carried out by means of money borrowed from the Government. The revision made at a resettlement is necessitated by the variation in the prices of the staple grains on the basis of which the assessment was fixed at the expiring settlement. Normally a resettlement is not a fresh settlement of the Government share of ‘the produce of the land, but is merely a revision of the commuted money velue of such share with reference to the variations in prices which have taken place subsequent to the introduc: tion of the previous settlement. Except for special reasons no general reclassification, of soils anid no fresh calculation of grain outturns, cultivation expenses, allowance for vicissitudes of seasons, ete., on the lines indicated in paragraph 2 above will be made at a resettlement, As a resettlement is based on the variations in prices, it is necessary to determine: the extent to which auch variations have taken place subsequent to the introduction of the expiring settlement. For (his purpose the commutation rates adopted Zor the staple grains at the expiring settlement shoud be compared with the value calculated for such of them os continue tc be staple grains from tho average of recorded prices during the twenty non- famine yours immediately preceding the commencement of resettlement operations alter an appropriate deduction has been made for cartage and merchants’ profits. Tn framing pro Tabak for the revision of assesement the Settlement Officer must bear in mind that there Peale er abe betentinl change in prices in order to justify the revision and that the rates, soa Ye Selsod to the full measure of @ rise.in prices because the allowances mado for seit oo crat of living and of labour, stock and implemonts, as well ss for promoting @ Hehe standard of comfort sbould be liberal. Whore the revision takes the form of a bighertage enhancement of the previous rates, such enhancement shall not exceed 18% per eer Ecce rates. ‘The Seltlement Ofiicer before recommending that a resattlament should Cone OF am of a percentage variation of the oxisting rates should satisfy himself thet the taiSing scheme of Yeles has proved reasonable in practice and equitable in ite incidence Ginsting consurency of tho expiring settlement and may propose such revision of the bases GP URE qssessment As he, for special reasons, considers necessary. For this purpose he Should ‘carry out an examination of the economic condition of the holders of agricultural seor sa the tract with a view to instituting a comparison between their condition in the Quuting and iu the elosing years of the settlement period. From such comparison reliable See ca may be drawn as to how far the oxisting rates as s whole have or have nob jiiveded economic development and to what extent they have proved relatively equitable. in E ‘the various parts of the area under report. ‘The information thus collected will also serve as - guide to the exact percentage enhancement which may reasonably be proposed and whether it should be uniform for the whole tract or not. 4. For the purpose of this investigation valuable evidence is obtained from the sele and lease values of land which afford a reliable indication of the effect of tho current assoas- ment not only on the lauds as a whole but on the various classes of Jand individually. Stax tistics of sale and lease values of land, as evidenced by the deeds registered in the offices of the Registration department will be compiled by that department for selected areas in all ‘hstricis except Malabar and South Kanara, In the case of these two districts the statistics should be prepared by the Seitlement Officer. Instructions for the compilation of these Statistics are contained in paragraph 12 below. ‘The Settlement Officer should scrutinize the statistics on the lines indicated in paragraph 18 below. Ho shonld also obtain as fuil data as possible in regard 1o the sale and lease values of land from the record of proceedings under ‘the Land Acquisition Act. The conclusions drawn by the Settlement Offiger with regard to ‘the variations in the sale and lease values of the various classes ‘of Jand in the tract which have taken place during the currency of the expiring sestlement should be embodied in his report.

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