Thursday 8 October 2015

REVENUE AND AGRICULTURE LAND


Revenue Sites
Sites formed on agricultural lands are revenue sites. They are unauthorised sites, which cannot be used for any non-agricultural purpose, residential houses.

Who can buy an agricultural land?
In Karnataka agricultural land can be bought after fulfilling 3 requirements. They are: (1) the annual average income of the person including agricultural income, should be less than Rs. 2 lakh. (2) The person must have an agricultural land in his name before the year 1974. (3) The person should be an agriculturist or an agricultural labour by profession.

RTC and Mutation Extracts
RTC means Record of Right, Tenancy and Inspection of crops. This is a primary record issued by village Accountant. It contains the details of survey number, total extent of the land, names of the persons who are the owners and their extent of holding, persons in possession and details of crops grown and land revenue for any particular period. It also contains the details of conversion of land from agriculture to non-agricultural purpose.

Mutation extract is an extract from the mutation register maintained by the Village Accountant. It records the transfer of land and the mode of such transfer, recommendations of the enquiry Officer for such transfer, date of entry of transfer and the record of rights.

How revenue land be used for residential purpose?
The Revenue Land has to be converted for residential purpose. After conversion of the agricultural land to the residential purpose, the assessment of the land has to be done by the local authority like Gram-panchayat, City Municipal Council, etc., for house site. The layout thus formed has to be approved by the statutory authorities like BMRDA, BDA.

How to detect the Revenue Sites and approved residential sites?
All the documents of the property, origin of title, RTC extracts, mutation extracts, conversion orders, paid conversion fee receipts, have to be examined. If the land is converted, it should be reflected in RTC. Further, tax payments receipts discloses the nature of the tax paid, whether land revenue or property tax. Revenue Lands have survey nos. and are mentioned in areas and guntas; whereas, residential sites have site numbers and mentioned in square feet. An experienced advocate would be helpful owing to the complexity of the different documents.

More,

No comments:

Post a Comment