Tamil Nadu State government set to make Land Reforms Act more stringent!
Posted on: 04/Nov/2019 12:55:28 PM
The Land Reforms Act was implemented in the state of Tamil Nadu in the year 1961. According to this Land Reforms Act, a family of 5 members can own lands up to 15 acres. In case there is an additional member of the 5-member family, each member can own up to 5 acres individually.
However, if the member owns lands exceeding this limit, the excess land owned will be confiscated by the state government.
The main objective of this Act is to ensure that the excess lands owned above the limit confiscated by the state government will be distributed to the poorer section of the society who does not own lands.
In the initial stages, a commissioner was appointed for each district to function on this task. However, with passing time, this responsibility is now under the Tahsildar as an additional task.
These Tashildars have to obtain the Land Reforms Act Form-15 duly signed by the public who come for registering their lands in the offices of the registrars once in a month or once in 3months.
Thus, the form duly filled with the complete details of the land ownership and signed will be obtained from the registrar by the Tahsildar.
However, there have been recent complaints that the Tahsildars do not obtain the details of the land registration duly filled in Land Reforms Act Form-15.
In this regard, it is gathered that an order has been issued to the district registrars by the IG (Inspector General) of the Department of Registration. The order mentions that the details obtained through the filled Form-15 should be collected and sent today (Monday, 4th November).
At the same time, the parallel activity of obtaining signatures in the duly filled up Form-15 from the public registering their lands is also in progress.
