House passes 3 bills on farm land and tenancy
CHANDIGARH : The Haryana assembly on Friday unanimously passed the PEPSU Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Haryana amendment) Bill, 2017; the Punjab Land Revenue (Haryana amendment) Bill, 2017 and the Punjab Security of Land Tenures (Haryana amendment) Bill, 2017.
Finance minister Capt Abhimanyu said the compensation for losses due to crop damage caused by natural calamities would now be given directly to the tenant (actual crop grower). Compensation would be given to them in a legal manner and tenants would also be able to take crop loan from bank.
Tenant and land owner would have to file an affidavit and the land owner would not have to fear that the tenant might usurp his land, he said.
He said that the passage of the Punjab Land Revenue (Haryana amendment) Bill, 2017 would reduce litigations involved in the disposal of revenue cases regarding demarcation, khasra girdawari, mutation and partition. Litigants would not have to repeatedly visit the offices of sub-divisional magistrates, deputy commissioner, divisional commissioner and additional chief secretary and revenue department, and would have to
RELIEF FOR LOSSES DUE TO CROP DAMAGE CAUSED BY NATURAL CALAMITIES WILL NOW BE GIVEN DIRECTLY TO THE TENANT, SAYS FM
file only one appeal against the mode of partition.
The Punjab Security of Land Tenures (Haryana amendment) Bill would ensure lease of agricultural land to the private sector on long-term basis, in such a way that the farmers or landowners were not alienated from their ownership rights.
The PEPSU Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Haryana amendment) Bill, 2017, makes amendments in the earlier 1953 Act, which was applicable in Mahendergarh, Dadri and Jind districts, to cover others districts of the state as well.