In these rules, unless there is anything to the contrary in the subject or context :-
(i) “Act” means the Rajasthan Colonisation Act, 1954(Rajasthan Act XXVII of 1954).
1[(i-a) “Advisory committee” includes a committee constituted by rule 10(3).]
(ii) “Allotting authority” means the Collector as defined in section 2(i) of the Act.
2[(ii-A) “Beneficiary of the Integrated Rural Development Programme” means a person who has been identified as being below the subsistence level and included in the Integrated Rural Development Programme and certified as such by the Collector or his authorised representative.]
(iii) “Colony Tehsildar” means an officer appointed as a Tehsildar in the Colonisation Department.
(iv) “Colony Naib-Tehsildar” means an officer appointed as Naib-Tehsildar in the Colonisation Department.
(v) “Commanded area” means land shown as such by the Irrigation Department in their command statement with reference to the Chambal Irrigation Project.
(vi) “Displaced agriculturist” means a person who has been displaced from his agricultural holding due to the construction of the Chambal Project or its canals or other works connected therewith, and has not been compensated in any other way for his lands. It includes a land-holder whose lands may have been submerged in the reservoirs constructed on the project or acquired for the construction of canals, their distributaries or other minor water courses, and who has not been otherwise compensated therefor.
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1. Added by Notfn. No. F.4(12) Rev./Col./75, dt. 17.10.1975.
2. Added by Notfn. No. F.4(25) Rev./Col./77, dt. 10.11.1982.
(vii) “Government land” means and includes all unoccupied lands, common village lands, lands let out temporarily after the commencement of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955, and also lands let out for temporary cultivation or lands covered by leases granted for any specific period or under any specified condition if such period of lease has expired or the land has been resumed on account of non-observance of the conditions, and all such lands of the resumed jagir villages in which no khatedari rights have been conferred on any tenant and which have been entered in the Settlement or Land Records as “Bilanami”, “Maqbuza thikana”, or maqbuza jagirdar.
1[(vii-A) “Integrated Rural Development Programme” means a programme undertaken by the State Government to identify the poorest persons subsisting below the poverty line, as well as the subsistence level, and residing in a rural area, and to provide productive assets and benefits for their economic upliftment.]
(viii) “Landless tenant” means a bona fide agriculturist by profession who cultivates or can reasonably be expected to cultivate land personally and who does not hold any land in his own name or in the name of any member of his joint family for cultivation:
2[Provided further that a released Sagri as certified by the Sub-Divisional Officer will be treated as landless tenant of that village.
Explanation.- For the purpose of this proviso ‘Sagri’ means the bonded labourer as defined in the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (Central Act 19 of 1976).]
3[Provided further that the following categories of persons shall not be deemed to be landless tenants, namely :-
(a) an employee other than a casual or work charged employee of the Government or of a commercial or industrial establishment or concern, his wife and children dependent on him;
(b) a person who has sold, or otherwise transferred, the whole or part of the land hold by or allotted to him other than land transferred to or acquired by the Government or statutory bodies, and thereby reduces the size of his holding to become a landless tenant.]
(ix) “Temporary tenant” means a person holding Government land under a lease sanctioned in his favour by a competent authority after the commencement of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 or who otherwise holds land either under a temporary lease or as a Ghair Khatedar tenant.