(1) In these rules, unless the subject or context otherwise requires;
(a) 'Act' means the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956 (Rajasthan Act No. 15 of 1956);
(b) 'Agriculture Co-operative Society' means the Co-operative Society of landless persons registered under the Rajasthan Co-operative Societies Act, 2001 (Act No. 16 of 2002);
(c) „Allotting Authority‟ means the authority constituted under rule 9;
(d) ‘BIDI‟ means the Board of Infrastructure Development & Investment constituted by the State Government from time to time.
(e) 'Bio-fuel Authority' means authority set up by the Government of Rajasthan.
(f) 'Bio-fuel based Industrial and Processing Unit‟ means and includes establishment of complexes or estates comprising bio-fuel processing industrial units, refineries, composite high technology agricultural projects in the areas of bio-fuel, hybrid seed production, micro propagation through tissue culture etc. and research & development activities including training;
(g) "Bio-fuel plantation" includes plantation of Jatropha, Karanj and other oil seeds plant suitable for production of bio-diesel;
(h) „Company‟ means Company registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (Act No. 1 of 1956);
(i) „District Level Committee‟ or 'D.L.C.' means the committee constituted by the State Government for a District from time to time under clause (b) of sub-rule
(1) of rule 2 of the Rajasthan Stamps Rules, 2004;
(j) 'Form' means form appended to these rules;
(k) 'Government Undertakings' means undertakings owned or controlled by the Government and shall also include Companies and Corporations owned or controlled by the Government;
(l) „Gram Panchayat‟ means Panchayat established under the Rajasthan Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Rajasthan Act No. 13 of 1994);
(m) 'Landless person' means a resident of Rajasthan who is either a bonafide agriculturist or an agricultural labourer, and is cultivating or is likely to cultivate land personally, and whose main source of livelihood is agriculture or any occupation which is subsidiary or subservient to agriculture, and such person does not hold any tenure land anywhere in Rajasthan, or the area of such land which he holds including any land which has been previously allotted to him, is less than 2 hectare of un-irrigated land:
Provided that the following categories of persons shall not be considered to be landless person, namely:-
(a) an employee of the Government, or of a commercial or industrial establishment or concern, his wife and children dependent on him. A casual or work-charged laborer shall not be treated as an employee for this purpose.
(b) a person who has sold or otherwise transferred, the whole or part of the land held by, or allotted to him and has, thereby, come to hold less than the minimum area specified above.
(c) a married person whose wife or husband, as the case may be, holds land including any land which has been previously allotted to him or her, jointly or severally, more than 2 hectare of un-irrigated land.
(n) „Lease‟ means a lease executed under these rules;
(o) „Society‟ means the society registered under the Rajasthan Societies Registration Act, 1958 (Act No. 28 of 1958);
(p) 'Self Help Group of B.P.L. families' means self help group ( SHG ) formed under the Swaran jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna (SGSY);
(q) 'Village Forest Security and Management Committee' means a committee constituted by the State Government in the Forest Department from time to time; and
(r) 'Wasteland" means degraded land which can be brought under cultivation with reasonable efforts and which is currently lying unutilized and land, which is deteriorating for lack of appropriate soil and water management on account of natural causes, including ravine land.
(2) Words and expressions, not defined in these rules but defined in the Act, shall wherever used in these rules, be construed to have the same meanings as assigned to them in the Act.
3 Purpose and eligibility of allotment.- (1) Land for bio-fuel plantation, and for bio-fuel based industry and processing unit under these rules may be allotted to:
(a) Self Help Group of BPL families,
(b) Village Forest Security and Management Committee,
(c) Gram Panchayats,
(d) Agriculture Co-operative Societies,
(e) Societies,
(f) Government Undertakings, and
(g) Companies.
(2) Maximum thirty percent of total wasteland available in a district may be allotted to Government undertakings and companies and preference will be given to those Government undertakings and companies which undertake to plant Ratanjot, Karaj and other similar bio-fuel plants and to establish processing units, refineries, composite units, value addition of such bio-fuel plants and processing, establishing nursery for high quality plants and seeds including research & development and undertake to employ at least 50% of unskilled labour from local areas.
(3) The remaining land shall be allotted to the other categories of sub-rule (1) and preference will be given to self help groups of B.P.L. families amongst other categories.