(1) The Allotting Authority shall issue a notice of sale in Form-XII giving full details of the land to be sold by public auction, namely, the name of the village, khasra number, area, date, time and place of auction.
(2) The notice shall be signed and sealed by the Allotting Authority and shall be affixed on the notice board of his office, and copies of the notice shall be affixed on the notice board of the Tehsil and on the Notice Board of the village Panchayat. The contents of the notice shall be made widely known in the locality in which the land proposes to be sold is situated, - 1[(i) by affixing copies thereof at some convenient place on or near about such land and in other conspicuous public places in the locality,
(ii) by beat of drum, and
(iii) by advertisement in two newspapers having wide circulation in the locality.]
(3) Sale by public auction under these rules shall be made by the Allotting Authority or any other Gazetted Officer appointed by him for the purpose with the prior approval of the Government.
(4) The following shall be the conditions of the sale under these rules :-
(a) All land sold under these rules shall be subject to the provisions of the Act and of the Rajasthan Colonisation (General Colony) Conditions, 1955 and of these rules.
(b) Land may be put up for sale in one lot or in several lots other than those shown in the notice and the Allotting Authority shall be competent to withdraw any lot or lots from sale without assigning any reason. The reserve price fixed by the Government or the offer received in auction, whichever is higher, shall be the sale price:
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1. Substituted by Notfn. No. F.4(4) Col./98, dt. 20.09.2011.
Provided that small patch of 2 acres or less shall be allotted to a tenant of contiguous field or holding by charging 10% over and above the reserve price but if there are more than one claimant for such small patch it will be given to the highest bidder by inviting auction among such claimants having contiguous field or holding thereto:
Provided further that the conditions laid down in sub-clause (ii) of clause (d) hereunder shall not be applicable in such cases.
(c) No land shall be put up for sale until the State Government fixes a reserve price thereof.
(d) No person shall be allowed to bid unless he-
(i) deposits an earnest money amounting to five percent of the total reserve price of each plot of land in cash. This earnest money shall be refunded on the spot to the unsuccessful bidder at the conclusion of the auction;
(ii) Signs a declaration before the officer conducting the auction that he does not hold in his own or in the name of any member of the joint family or if he holds land the total area of the land already held and of the land he wishes to purchase at the auction shall not exceed the ceiling area prescribed for the Tehsil concerned, and that he undertakes to cultivate the land personally.
(e) No person shall at any auction, retract his bid and if any dispute arises, the land shall be put to auction against at the last undisputed bid.
(f) The highest offer shall be communicated to the Collector and the sale shall not be complete unless the offer is accepted by the Collector:
Provided that the collector shall not, without the approval of the State Government in Colonisation Department accept an offer which is less than 25% over the reserve price.
(g) The State Government in Colonisation Department reserves the right to reject any bid without assigning any reason.
(h) A sum equal to twenty percent of the purchase price shall have to be deposited in cash on the date the bid is closed, fifteen percent of the purchase price shall be paid within one month of such date and the remaining sixty percent in two equal yearly Instalments, that is to say, thirty percent of the purchase price one year after such date and the remaining thirty percent at the close of the second year. The amount payable in instalments shall bear interest at 9% per annum and the interest shall be payable along with the instalment of the purchase price.