2[(1) (i) The landless tenants and other tenants ejected or ~o be ejected in the village. shall. apply to the Panchayat .for t.he allotment of the excess area of Shamilat Deh. available for the purpose under thir9 proviso to sub-section ( 1) of Section 5, not. later than the end of
1. Omitted vide Pb. Govt. Gaz. L.S. Part Ill, dated 14-2-1979
2. Substituted vide Pb. Govt Gaz. L.S. Part Ill, dated 18-7-1967 36 October each year. Each suqh application shall be acknowledged in writing and entered in register ·of tenants, by the Panchayat.
(ii) The Panchayat shall, in the month of January, every, formulate its proposal for the allotment of the area referred to in clause
(i) to the tenants and seDd the same to the Collector through the Panchayat Samiti for approval. The Collector may accept the proposal of the Panchayat, with or without any modification, or return the same to the Panchayat, for sending a revised proposal.
(iii) Where the area available for allotment to the tenants is not sufficient to satisfy all the applicants; preference for the purposes of allotment shall be determined by the order in which applications for allotment were made and where the applications were made on the same day, the priority shall be decided by drawing lots.
(2) (i) Applications for allotment of excess area of Shamilat Deh available for distribution ~mongst small landowners under the third proviso to sub-section ( 1) of Section 5 shall be made to the Panchayats within one month of the date· of determination of such area by the Panchayat.
(ii) Each such application shall be acknowledged in writing and entered in the register maintained for this purpose, by the Panchayat.
(iii) The Panchayat .. shall submit its proposals to the Collector through the Panchayat Samiti within two months of the date of determination of the excess area by the Panchayat.
(iv) Where the area available for distribution among small landow·ners is not sufficient to satisfy all the applicants, priority shall be given to the smallest landowners and where they are more than one, small l_andowners having equal land-holdings priority shall be decided by drawing lots.] .
(3) In case a tenant or small land-holder does not take possession of the area allotted to him within six months from date of allotment, the allotment shall be inoperative and that area shall be utilized for resettlement of another tenant or small land-holders as the case may be.