( 1) The Director may engage one or more Agencies having such qualification as may be prescribed who shall be responsible for preparation of preliminary record of rights in whole or in part of the revenue village including preparation of notices for the land owners and their services to the land owners concerned and inviting objections thereon and for collections and compilations of such objections to the notices in the prescribed manner.
(2) There shall be constituted in every revenue village · concerned a team of persons to update and prepare basic record of rights with the assistance of such Agency and licensed surveyor.
, 'I Publication of record of rights.
Objections to draft record of rights.
Work during the recess.
Final · publication of the record of rights.
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(3) A iea.m of persons referred to in sub-section (2) , shall i ncluL'~:: an officer or employee of the Tahasil office . concerned and any other designated officer or employee as the Sub-Collector may appoint.
(4) While preparing the basic record of rights, the concerned team of persons shall take into account to-date ground realities, changes, transfers, sub,.divisions, partitions, hereditary devolution, exchanges and the like, in matters of determining right, title and ownership of the land holdings.
( 5) Such team of persons shall identify and demarcate lands, Government lands, lands treated as common property resources and the like and record the same as such 'in the record of rights.
(6) Claims and objections, if any, shall be disposed of in such manner. and by such officer not below the rank of a Tahasildar as may be prescribed and the land records prepared in the aforesaid manner, shall be called the draft record of rights.
8. The draft record of rights including maps,· prepared under section 7, shall be published in the concerned revenue village in the manner as may be prescribed in this behalf, inviting claims and objections.
9. Claims and objections shall be heard and disposed of in such manner and by such officer as may be prescribed who shall not be below the rank of an Additional Sub-Collector:
Provided that the officer who has heard and decided the claims and objections under section 7 shall not hear the claims and objections under this section.
10. After the disposal of claims and objections in accordance with section 9, the final checking of records, fair copying, comparing, and arrangements of records alphabetically acco~ding to names of land owners shall be carried out in recess, in the prescribed manner.
11·. (1)The record of rights of a revenue village shall be published finally under the hand and seal of the Collector in the prescribed manner, after the conclusion of work under section 10.
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(2) Claims and objections with regard to the record of rights may be filed within three months of its filial publication and such claims and objections shall be heard and disposed of in such manner and by such officer as may be prescribed, who shall not be below the rank of · an Additional Distr1ct' Magistrate.
(3) .A copy of.the finally published record of rights shall be sent to the concerned Tahasil Office for follow.up action in day-to-day revenue administration.
(4) The orders, if any, passed under sub-section (2) shall be communicated to the Tahasildar for necessary corrections in the record of rights.
Presumption 12. ( 1) The record of rights prepared and finally published under of final this Chapter or a certified copy thereof shall be conclusive evidence of publication such publication .
and correctness of record of rights.
Consolidation to follow special , survey and settlement.
(2) The Government may, by notification, declare with regard to any specified area that a record of rights has been finally published for every village included in such area and such notification she;lll be conclusive evidence of such publication.
(3) Every entry in a record of rights, so published, shall be.
evidence of the matter referred to in such entry and shall be presumed to .be correct unless it is proved by evidence to be incorrect:
Provided that, if any entry · in a . record of rights is altered in a subsequent record of rights, -the latter entry shall be presumed to be correct until it is proved by evidence tO be incorrect, but the previous entry shall be admissible as evidence of the facts existing at the time when such entry was made.
13. The record of rights finally published in respect of any revenue village covered by special survey and settlement under this Act shall be taken into account for the purpose of consolidation operations as provided in the Odisha Consolidation of Holdings and Prevention of Fragmentation of Land Act, 1972.
Maintenance 14. All the records created during preparation of record of rights ofrecords in may be maintairied in digital form in the prescribed manner.
digital form. .
Odisha Act 21 of1972.
Grant of licence and enrolment.
Duties of the licensed surveyors.
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CHAPTER Ill LICENSED SURVEYOR