In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.—
(a) “Collector” means the Collector of the district or any officer empowered by the Government to discharge the functions of a Collector under this Act;
(b) “improvement” means any work which adds to the value of the land, and includes the following, namely:—
(i) the construction of wells, tanks, sluice bund and other works for the storage, supply or distribution of water for the purposes of agriculture or for the use of men and cattle employed in agriculture;
(ii) the preparation of land for irrigation;
(iii) the drainage, reclamation from rivers or other waters, or protection from floods or from erosion or other damage by water, of land used for agricultural purposes or land which is cultivable;
(iv) the construction of permanent bunds around Punja or Kayal fields used for agricultural purposes;
* Received the assent of the Governor on the 12 th day of July, 1961 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 89 dated 15th July, 1961 3
(v) the reclamation, clearance, enclosure or permanent improvement of land for agricultural purposes;
(vi) the construction of walls, boundary walls (Kayyalas), store houses, farm houses and cattle sheds;
(vii) the renewal or reconstruction of any of the foregoing works, or alterations therein or additions thereto;
(viii) the planting or rearing of such kinds of plants and crops as may be notified in the Gazette by the Government; and
(ix) such other works as the Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be improvements for the purposes of this Act;
(c) “ prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
PART II LAND IMPROVEMENT LOANS