In these rules, unless the subject on context otherwise requires-
(1) "the Act" shall mean the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956.
(2) "fragment" shall mean a piece of Land less in area than the minimum prescribed by the State Government for the purpose of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955.
(2) "Landless Agriculturist" means a resident of Rajasthan who is either a bonafide agriculturist, or an agriculturist labourer, cultivation or likely to cultivate the land personally or whose main source is subsidiary or subservient to agriculture, and such person does not hold any tenure land anywhere in Rajasthan, or such land which he holds is less than one fifth of the minimum area prescribed in section 53 of The Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (Rajasthan Act 3 of 1955);
Provided that following categories of person shall not be considered to be landless agriculturists, namely :-
(a) An employee of the Government or of a commercial or industrial establishment or concern, his wife and children dependant on him but this does not include a casual or work charge labourer;
(b) A person who held tenure land, including a person who has been allotted agricultural land, in excess of the area specified above;
(c) A person who has sold or otherwise transferred, the whole or part of the land so hold by or allotted to him.
(3) "Tank-Bed-lands" shall mean Government lands situated in the beds of tanks or rivers, other than such lands in which Khatedari rights had accrued prior to amendment of clause (ii) of section 16 of the tenancy Act by the Rajasthan Revenue Laws (Extension) Act, 1957, (Rajasthan Act 2 of 1958) and other than lands held on Gair Khatedari tenure:
(5) "Tenancy Act" shall mean the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955, (Rajasthan Act 3 of 1955):
(6) Words and expressions defined in the Act or in the Tenancy Act shall, wherever used in these rules, be construed to have the meanings assigned to them by the said Act.
3. Issue of proclamation and inviting applications for allotment - The Sub- Divisional Officer shall, where tank bed lands, emerge out of the water and are available for cultivation by a prescribed date, seven days before such date, and in other cases seven days before the date in which such lands are likely to emerge out of water and be available for allotment, issue a proclamations in the manner laid down in section 61 of the Act, inviting applications from landless Agriculturist who are residents of the village in which the tank or river is situated or who are residents of the adjoining village of the same Tehsil for the allotment of such land for cultivation. The copy of such proclamation shall also be pasted on the notice board of the Tehsil and Gram Panchayat:
Provided that the State Government, if it considers necessary, may by a notification reduce the said period of proclamation and of inviting application.