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Government of Gujarat
Collector Manual
Revenue Department
Government of Gujarat.
No.Rev./D.M./R&B/CP/WCW/ /07-08
Minister, Revenue, Disaster Management,
Roads & Buildings, Capital Project, Women &
Child Welfare, Government of Gujarat,
1/6, Sardar Patel Bhavan, Gandhinagar-382010.
Ph. No.(079) 23243331/23238077
Anandiben Patel,
This is the 48th
year to-day for the existence of Gujarat since its
inception on May 1, 1960 as a separate state of Free India. We are
implementing most of the laws including amendments regarding land of
the time of Bombay State.
Revenue Department is related with human beings from his birth
to death. Whether he is the owner of the land or not, each citizen has to
come into contact with the Revenue Offices for a minor or major work.
Thus, Revenue Department is the only Department, which has wide
contacts with the common mass at large.
There is an impression in the society that the procedure of
Revenue administration is very much complicated one. A need is felt
since last sometime that there is a necessity for review of efforts being
made to make the administrative procedure more easy and speedy. A
vast backlog of long pending voluminous cases of applicants since long
is nothing but deficiency of decision machinery. It creates a favourable
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impression about administrative mechanism by satisfying speedily small
and minor grievances of ration cards, certificates and evidences of the
common people. We have to set a goal of innovative and positive
situation. Our state is committed to a welfare policy. We have to play
our role as an humble servant rather than a task master. As a public
servant, we have to be a watchdog of state resources to preserve
financial resources of the state exchequer.
Under the E-Dhara Programme, land records have been
computerized. The collector is responsible to see whether our revenue
employees working in E-Dhara Centre are sincere and devited to their
duties and responsibilities, in the way the gardener is looking after the
garden and if we are deficient in performing our duties perfectly the
government lands, revenue records and rights of land holders would not
be protected.
After implementing any scheme, it is difficult to maintain and
preserve and maintain it in the systematic use of human resources to
develop skill and to solve public grievances with human face. To
manage this task, there is a huge mechanism under the control of the
collector. Necessary guidance is of utmost importance for power
enjoyed and proper discharge of functions assigned by this wide revenue
machinery.
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For this purpose, the Revenue Department has published the Prant
Manual and Mamlatdar Manual. The publication of the collector manual
has also been materialized to day. A sincere effort has been made to
provide detailed understanding of revenue Acts and rules, magisterial
acts in coordination with other departments of the government. I hope
this manual will be useful to the collectors in dealing the cases.
1st April, 2008 Anandiben Patel
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Government of Gujarat
Revenue Department
(State Emblem)
Vilasini Ramchandra, I.A.S.
Principal Secretary.
Perhaps a very few people understand that the land is a unique
gift of nature to man. It is useful for raw materials for vegetation, food
and industries. It also provides space for residence and livelihood and it
is impossible for human beings to live without land. To day as the land
has become a limited resource of wealth, it is important to preserve and
manage this invaluable gift of nature. Under the land revenue Acts, our
far sighted ancestors have provided us inheritance to maintain as per
specimen of Manual of Revenue Accounts, the accounts of
administration of land under land revenue laws.
In the present time of speedy urbanization and industrialization, it
is natural that the people in need of land may have many expectations
from the revenue Department. Along with meeting demands of
government land, it is imperative to plan future needs with foresight and
therefore it is both indispensable to administer land and maintain its
accounts scrupulously. For protection of rights of land holders and
government lands, updation of computerized land record and its
maintenance are pre conditions of ideal record keeping. Secondly, it is
also expected that in order to make revenue administration more smooth
and speedy, guidance has been provided to the administrative staff phase
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wise. However, as it requires focused attention yet a lot is expected from
the collector as head of district for revenue administration at this
juncture.(1) disposal of public issues in a time bound manner, (2)
Updation of land record and making it more secure. (3) To make
administration more sensitive to the needs of people. (4) To develop
intimacy by instiling confidence in people for administration. (5) To
generate ideal condition conducive to promoting efficiency in
subordinate employees/ officers and to sustain trust in leadership of the
collector (6) Streamlization of methodology and its implementation.
Thus, it should be our goal to strength management and its
constant sustainability and passing on land and inheritance of its ideal
administration to the successors. In order to concretize these objectives,
uninterrupted guidance and encouragement are provided by revenue
Department as a part of administrative education. It being a first step of
continuing administration for consolidated guidance it was under
consideration to bring out Collector Manual besides the manuals
published for Prant officers and Mamlatdars. This aim has been
achieved by Revenue Inspection Commissioner, Shri C.L. Meena and
his team. It is hoped that this Manual will be useful to the collectors in
making revenue administration ideal, dynamic and people oriented.
1st Aprtil, 2008
Vilasini Ramchandran
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P R E A M B L E
The seeds of revenue administration are in the economics of
Kautilya. There is a general perception that the economics of Kautilya is
a volume based on the principles of politics only. But is not so. It also
deals with economics. Rural and agriculturalist system of that time was
based on power and prosperity of state, depending on farming, minerals,
business and commerce and collection of taxes. Moreover, principles of
rates of wages, price of Commodities and its control, use of revenue
receipts for discharging social obligations, etc were propounded.
Besides economics of Kautilya, we notice authorized base of land
revenue system in Manu Sanhita.
Shershah and able minister of Akbar, Todarmal provided the
principles of land and land revenues during the period of high 1540 to
1545 A.D. He classified land measurements and land as best, medium
and the low. He also adopted the system of recovery of land revenue in
financial form based on average of previous 19 years.
Thereafter Raiyatwari system was introduced in the Maratha
period, which was systematically implemented during British rule. As it
was found necessary to implement Raiyatwari system, survey was
undertaken for settlement and along with this, legal status was granted to
recovery of assessment of land revenue by regulation of 1927. During
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British rule many changes were effected in land administration but a
noteworthy aspect was survey and settlement.
The Bombay Land Revenue Code 1879, was enacted during the
Bombay State. Besides this acts, conferring magisterial powers and
revenue administration were in force. Provisions made in revenue code
are related to land administration. As it was imperative to record
changes made in administration of land and to maintain accounts of land
the then ICS Anderson published the manual of revenue accounts in
1931 A.D. which is being followed today. It is a beacon light for
maintaining land revenue administration and land accounts.
After merger of former princely states, the pubic servants of
different cadres were included in the Bombay Revenue Service. They
were ignorant of Bombay Revenue system to a large extent. As it being
a compulsory service and posts were created as per requirements, some
of the new government appointees though ignorant of system and in
experienced they were allotted duties and need was felt for training to
the new recruitees and with the result, work of preparation of Revenue
Manual to Shri M. K. Deshpande, I.A.S. in 1949, was handed over. It
took five long years and in 1954 this Revenue Manual saw light of the
day.
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Gujarat State was formed on May 1, 1960 as a separate state on
bifurcation of former Bombay State and land revenue code of the
erstwhile Bombay State is in force even today with amendments.
The administration today has become more people oriented and