The Goa, Daman & Diu Land Revenue Inspectors (Duties and Functions) Rules, 1969

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    "title": "The Goa, Daman & Diu Land Revenue Inspectors (Duties and Functions) Rules, 1969",
    "short_title": "The Goa, Daman & Diu Land Revenue Inspectors (Duties and Functions) Rules, 1969",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. RD/LRC/245/69-71/6",
    "act_year": 1969,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa, Daman & Diu Land Revenue Inspectors (Duties and Functions) Rules, 1969",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Chavdi\" means a local Village Panchayat Office or other convenient and centrally located public place as the Collector may direct;\n(b) \"Code\" means the Goa, Daman and Diu Land Revenue Code, 1968;\n(c) \"crop register\", \"crop-statement\", \"diary\", \"field-book\", \"ledger\" or \"village ledger\", \"live-stock return\", \"map\", \"receipt book\", \"register\", \"village atlas\", \"statistical return\" and \"quinquennial register\" means a crop register, crop statement, diary, field book, ledger or village ledger, live stock return, map, receipt-book, register, village atlas, statistical return or, as the case may be, quinquennial register prescribed for a village under rules made under the provisions of the Code or as the case may be, under general or special orders of the Government;\n(d) \"fair price shop\" means any shop which the Government may declare to be a fair price shop;\n(e) \"Gaothan or Village Site\" means the lands included within the site of a village, town or city as determined by section 64;\n(f) \"Pot Kharab\" means barren or uncultivable land included in a survey number and includes any land comprised in a survey number which from any reason is held not to be likely to be brought under cultivation.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. General duties of Revenue Inspectors.",
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            "content": "(a) inspect the works for which loans have been granted to the villagers under the provisions of the Agriculturists' Loans Act, 1884 or the Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883, to ascertain-\n(i) that the tagai advances have been duly recorded in the Record of Rights;\n(ii) that they have been spent for the purposes for which they were given; and\n(iii) that the conditions attached to the grant of such advances are properly observed by the persons concerned;\n(b) inquire into the collection of Government revenue, ascertain the reason why such revenue is in arrears, examine the Talathi's balance and ascertain that remittances to the treasury are duly made;\n(c) test a reasonable number of receipts in respect of land revenue paid and other dues by oral examination of the persons concerned and by comparison with the ledger; and, where any corrections are made by them in the receipt books, initial against such corrections, and record a note at the rent of a village ledger stating by their numbers which accounts have been verified;\n(d) examine the diary of the Talathi, make remarks in the column provided for the purpose and note them briefly in his own diary;\n(e) assist in the preparation of paise valuation of crops of every village in his circle; and satisfy himself that due publicity has been given to orders regarding suspension or remission of land revenue;\n(f) during the period commencing from 1st July and ending on 30th September, compile taluka statistical return and do such office works as the Mamlatdar may direct;\n(g) inquire whether a tenant actually cultivating land is the same as entered in the Record of Rights, and whether all cases of discrepancies, if any, are duly reported to the Mamlatdar;\n(h) check whether landlords issue receipts as required by the provisions in the Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 and verify whether any landlord recovers rent in excess, or in the form of labour or service in contravention of the provisions of such law, and whether all such cases are reported to the Mamlatdar for action;\n(i) check building operations to see whether any law for the prevention of ribbon development has been contravened and if so, see what further step have been taken;\n(j) verify periodically, the non-agricultural plots, the plots in the Gaothan leased or granted, the lands given out on special terms and the lands vesting in the Village Panchayat with a view to detecting encroachments and breaches of such terms;\n(k) check whether the conditions attached to grants of lands on impartible or inalienable tenure are properly observed by the grantees;\n(l) perform as many crop cutting experiments as required for the purpose of fixing paise valuation of crops and assessing the rents under the relevant tenancy law;\n(m) check whether the register showing cases of discrepancy in maps, village atlas, and the Record of Rights as compared to the actual state of things in the holder, which require regularization is maintained up-to-date;\n(n) when no special staff for the purpose has appointed, verify the food stocks in Government godowns in his circle, by taking a percentage check of bags of each kind of grain, and inspect fair price shops; and\n(o) check the list of survey numbers situated on the bank of rivers and nallas, which are subject to alluvial and diluvial changes.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Duties of Revenue Inspectors in times of scarcity.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Revenue Inspector to intimate his tour programme.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Touring.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Diary of Revenue Inspector.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Inward and outward register.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Revenue Inspector to reside in their respective Circles.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Report about unauthorized diversion of land.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Inspection of sub-division.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Duties of Revenue Inspector while on inspection.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Correction of crop statements.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Inspection when Talathi has failed to fill in crop statement.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Crop statement, etc., to be kept in Chavdi.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Registration of double crops and crop mixtures.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Registration of fallow and other lands.",
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            "content": "(i) verify whether any land is lying uncultivated for two or more consecutive years through the default of the landlord or the tenant and report such cases to the Mamlatdar.\n(ii) cause to be registered in the crop register, all lands which have been actually sown; irrespective of whether there is a yield of crops or not, and all fallow lands and the areas thereof:\n(a) in the case of dry crop lands, if the area is not more than one hundred square meters;\n(b) in the case of garden land, if the area is not more than twenty five square meters; and\n(c) in the case of crops sown in Potkharab lands:",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Inspection of lands.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Inspection of boundary and survey marks.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Repairs to boundary and survey marks.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Report to Inspector of Surveys and Land Records in certain cases.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Inspection of live-stock returns.",
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            "content": "(i)\nIn villages having less than five hundred population.\nAll entries.\n(ii)\nIn villages having more than five hundred but less than one\n\t\t\t\tthousand population.\nHalf the total number of entries.\n(iii)\nIn villages having more than one thousand population.\nOne-fourth of the total number of entries.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Recording sources of water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Inspection of sources of water supply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Revenue Inspector to perform functions entrusted to them by Collector.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "goa273",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. RD/LRC/245/69-71/6, dated 16th February, 1971",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1969",
        "Short Title": "The Goa, Daman & Diu Land Revenue Inspectors (Duties and Functions) Rules, 1969",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}