In these rules unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:-
(i) “Act” means the Rajasthan Colonisation Act, 1954(Rajasthan Act 27 of 1954);
(ii) “Allotting Authority” means the Collector as defined in clause (i) of Sec. 2 of the Act;
(iii) “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;
(iv) “Command Land” means land shown as such by the Irrigation Department of the State Government in their command statement with reference to the Mahi Irrigation Project;
(v) “Displaced Agriculturist” means a person who has been displaced from his agricultural holding due to the construction of the Mahi Project;
(vi) “Family” means a family consisting of husband, wife and their minor children but excluding minor married daughters;
(vii) “Government Land” means all lands belonging to or vesting in the State Government except those in which Khatedari Rights have been acquired by or conferred upon any person under the provisions of any law for the time being in force;
(viii) “Integrated Rural Development Programme” means programme undertaken by the State Government to identify the poorest person subsisting below the poverty line, as well as the subsistence level and residing in a rural area, and to provide productive assests and benefits for their economic upliftment;
(ix) “Landless Agriculturist” means a person who is a resident of Rajasthan and has been by profession, a bonafide agriculturist or a bonafide agricultural labourer, having agriculture as the primary source of his income and who either does not hold any land anywhere in India or holds land less than 25 bighas but does not include a temporary cultivation lease holder:
Provided 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):
Provided further that the following categories of persons shall not be deemed to be landless agriculturist, 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 held 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 agriculturist :
(x) “Resident of Rajasthan” means a person who has been continuously residing in Rajasthan since before 15th October, 1955 and who is certified as such by an officer not below the rank of Tehsildar, having jurisdiction in the area on the basis of evidence to be recorded by him;
(xi) “Tenure Land”, “Tenure Khata” and “Tenure Tenant” shall respectively mean land held under proprietory Mauroosie, and Khatedari rights, Khata comprising such land and a person holding such land under all or any of the aforesaid tenures;
(xii) “Temporary Tenant” means a person holding Government land under 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; and
(xiii) “Small patch” means a piece of land measuring upto two acres of irrigated land or four acres of un-irrigated land.