Governor signs the Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code (Amendment) Bill, 2022

• 27 Apr 2022

Why In News?

• On 26 April 2022, Chhattisgarh Governor Anusuiya Uikey signed the Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code (Amendment) Bill, 2022, a bill introduced to amend the Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code 1959.

Key Points

• According to the Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Code (Amendment) Bill, 2022, amendments have been made in 12 sections of the original Act, 48 sections of Chapter 7 and 16 sections of Chapter 14 of the Land Revenue Code.
• In the amended Bill, in sub-section 01 of section 50 of the principal Act, for the Settlement Commissioner, 'Commissioner of Land Records' has been substituted. Similarly, 'District Survey Officer' has been substituted in place of Settlement Officer.
• In Chapter 7 of the principal Act, for the title 'Revenue survey and settlement in non-urban areas', the words 'Land survey and land revenue assessment' have been substituted.
• A new section 178B has been inserted in the amended Bill. According to this, the Tehsildar will first issue the information to the interested parties by entering the applications received for account division in the e-namantran portal and will publish the general information or advertisement.
• On receipt of objection in any case or the Tehsildar finds the matter to be disputed due to any reason, he will register the case by transferring the case from online e-namantaran portal to his e-revenue court, otherwise all proceedings in the case will be done through online e-namantaran portal.