(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "Agency" means any person engaged by the Director for preparation of preliminary record of rights;
(b) "Collector" means the Collector of the district;
(c) "Director" means the Director, Land Records and Survey;
(d) "Government" means the Government of Odisha;
(e) "Land owner" means,-
(i) . a raiyat;
(ii) a tenant;
(iii) a land holder;
(f) "licensed surveyor" means a person technically qualified to measure, draw sketch map or map according to the · scale of plots and holding lice·.nce from the Director to carry out the work relating to survey and settlement and such other work as may be assigned to him, from time to t.ime;
(g) "Modern Technology" includes Aerial Photography, High Resolution Satellite imagery, Differential Global Positioning System and Electronic total station system and such other technology or method as may be approved by the State Government;
(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
. (1) "public body" means a Government Company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 Act 1 of or.a Corporation established by or under a Centra.1 1956 · Act or State Act which is controlled or managed by · the Government or a local authority;
I Intention for survey and settlement.
Reorganizing ongoing survey operations.
3 (J) "recess"-means the stage during which records are prepared for the final publication of the record of rights;
(k) "record of rights" means record of rights prepared under this Act containing the entries of the surveyed land along with their category, ownership, nature, area and such other matters as may be prescribed;
(/) "revisional survey" means survey operations initiated and conducted on the basis of the blue print map of the cadastral survey in order to update the land records; and
(m) "settlement" ·means survey operations condu~ted in a district or in an area in order to determine land revenue assessment.
(2) Words and expressions used in this Act but not.defined shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Odisha Survey and Settlement Act, 1958 and the Odisha Land Reforms Act 1960.
CHAPTER II SPECIAL SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT