Section 4: Determination of area for purposes of ceiling and exemptions

The Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 1 of 1961

[For purposes fo determining the [ceiling area] under Section 5 or any exemption under Section 6-

(i) subject to the provisions of clause (ii), one and-half hectares of unirrigated land or two and a half hectares fo grove-land or two and a half hectares of usar land shall count as one hectare of irrigated land;

(ii) []one and one-half hectares of single crop land or two and a half hectares of any other un-irrigated land] in the following areas, namely

(a) Bundelkhand ;

(b) trans-Jamuna portions of Allahabad, Etawah, Mathura and Agra districts ;

(c) cis-Jamuna portions of Allahabad, Fatehpur, Kanpur, Etawah, Mathura and Agra districts up to 16 kilometers from deep stream of the Jamuna ;

(d) the portion of Mirzapur district south of Kaimur Range ;

(e) Tappa Upraudh and Tappa Chaurasi (Balai Pahar) of Tahsil Sadar in Mirzapur district ;

(f) the portion of Tahsil Robertsganj in Mirzapur district which lies north of Kaimur Range ;

(g) Pargana Sakteshgarh and the villages mentioned in lists A and B of Schedule VI to the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, in hilly patties of Parganas Ahraura and Bhaga of Tahsil Chunar in Mirzapur district ; and

(h) the area comprised in the former Taluka of Naugarh of Tahsil Chakia in Varanasi district ;

(i) hilly and Bhabar areas of Kumaun and Garhwal Division and Jaunsar Bawar Pargana of Dehra Dun district ; shall count as one hectare of irrigated land

[Explanation For the purposes of clause (ii), the expression single crop land means any un-irrigated land capable of producing only one crop in an agricultural year in consequence of assured irrigation from any State Irrigation Work or private irrigation work. ]

Where this provision sits

Act	The Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960
Section	4
Marginal note	Determination of area for purposes of ceiling and exemptions
Jurisdiction	State of Uttar Pradesh
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted. . Section 4 as follows substituted by sec. 4 of U.P. Act no. 18 of 1973
other. . Ceiling area (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the ceiling area applicable to a tenure-holder shall be calculated after taking into account all the land in any holding in the State held by him, in his own right, whether in his own name or ostensibly in the name of any other person. (2) (a) The ceiling area of a tenure-holder shall be forty acres of Fair Quality Land. (b) Where the tenu…
substituted, U. P. Act 2 of 1975. .Subs. by sec. 4 (a) of U. P. Act 2 of 1975.
inserted, U. P. Act 2 of 1975. . Ins. by sec. 4 (b) of U. P. Act 2 of 1975

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