The Bihar Canal Chat/Land Settlement Rules, 2010

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    "title": "The Bihar Canal Chat/Land Settlement Rules, 2010",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Canal Chat/Land Settlement Rules, 2010",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. 21/Wad-8-01/2006-2",
    "act_year": 2010,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar Canal Chat/Land Settlement Rules, 2010",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Procedure of Settlement.",
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            "content": "(b) The members of the lottery committee will be as follows:-\n(i)\nThe concerned Executive Engineer\nChairman\n(ii)\nThe Circle Officer/The B. D.O. Of the area\nMember\n(iii)\nThe Mukhiya of the concerned Gram Panchayat\nMember\n(c) The Lottery for the purpose of Settlement will be opened on the prefixed date and place before the aforesaid committee & the applicants present.\n(d) The Executive Engineer of the area on an interval of 3 years, will publish a notice for the settlement of such Canal Chat/Land on his office Notice Board as well as on the Notice Board of the concerned Police Station/Office of the Circle Officer and the Office of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, while also publishing the same in the local Hindi News-Paper latest by 15th April of that year. A copy of this notice will also be sent to the local M.L.A. & the local M.P. separately through registered posts.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Persons eligible for Settlement.",
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            "content": "(a) Landless members of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes\n(b) Landless members of other categories\n(c) Such retired Soldier/widows or dependents of martyrs who are landless.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Other Requirements.",
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            "content": "(ii) For participating in settlement through lottery it shall be essential for the willing persons to deposit an amount of 10% of the pre-fixed rent as earnest money, in the office of the concerned Executive Engineer/Sub-divisional Officer, Water Resource Department, latest by but not later than one day before the date of the lottery. Successful person(s) shall have to deposit 50% of total rent amount so fixed (including the earnest money) within 3 days of the lottery and the rest 50% will be deposited within 15 days from the date of lottery. Failure to deposit such amount in time will lead to forfeiture of the earnest money. The earnest money shall be adjusted against the payable rent at the time of depositing the full rent amount. The earnest money of unsuccessful persons shall be refunded to them soon after the lottery.\n(iii) A maximum of upto 2 Acres of land shall be settled to any eligible person. In case of a dispute which can not be settled by the Superintending Engineer/Chief Engineer concerned, it will be decided at the level of the department.\n(iv) If the land falls in the extremist infested zone and where there is a prior history of any incident in settling the lands, the concerned Chief Engineer, shall provide full details about it to the Department and arrangement for the settlement of land in the particular area will be made with the co-operation of the local RS./Circle Officer/B.D.O./Sub-Divisional Magistrate/District Magistrate.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Determination of leviable rent of Canal Chat/Land.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Repeal.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh512",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. 21/Wad-8-01/2006-276., dated 13th July, 2010, Bihar Gazette (Extraordinary) No. 583, dated 16 August, 2010",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2010",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Canal Chat/Land Settlement Rules, 2010",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}