After rule 108CC of the Karnataka Land Revenue Rules, 1966, (hereinafter referred to as the said rules) the following shall be inserted, namely:
“108-CCC. Procedure under Section 94-A.- (1) For the purposeof subsection (4) of section 94-A of the Act, any person who is in unauthorized occupation of the Government Land may make an application to the Tahsildar of the concerned Taluk along with a fee of rupees one hundred.
Provided that the person who have applied for regularization of unauthorized cultivation under Form-50 and Form-53 shall not be eligible for applying in Form -57
(2) After receipt of application in Form-57, the concerned Tahasildar shall cause the particulars of the application to be entered in a register kept in his office, which shall be in Form-58 in the order of seniority of date of receipt of application.
(3) Tahsildar shall thereafter get the application scrutinized and send with all related documents to the officer authorized by him for further verification. On receipt of application and document from the Tahsildar, the Officer authorized by him shall make spot inspection, examine the documentary and circumstantial evidence, determine the eligibility or otherwise, record his findings and send a report to the Tahsildar, who is the Secretary to the Committee, within three months from the date of receipt of the documents. On receipt of the report from the officer, authorized with his findings, the Tahsildar shall make suitable recommendation to the Committee or Additional Committee as the case may be within one month from the receipt of the report.
(4) The Committee or the Additional Committee shall after verifying the particulars submitted by the applicant and recommendations of the Tahsildar, after holding such enquiry as deemed necessary determine the extent of land to which the applicant is entitled for grant and the amount required to be paid by him for the grant of land and publish a notice which shall be in Form-59 in the Chavadi of the village in which the land is situated and also in the Office of the Gram Panchayat inviting objections from the interested persons for the proposed grant within such time as may be specified in the notice which shall not be less than fifteen days from the date of the notice.
(5) After expiry of the period specified in the notice, the Committee or the Additional Committee shall, after considering the objections received and after further enquiry, if necessary recommend for the grant of land unauthorizedly occupied by the applicant or to dismiss it, subject to the provisions of rule 108-I.
(6) The provisions of sub rules (3), (4) and (6) of the rule-108D shall mutatis-mutandis apply for the purpose of grant of land under sub-section (4) of section 94A of the Act.