The proposal dilutes the very purpose of the law, which prohibited the transfer of land allocated to Dalits. Therefore, the law should be kept in its original form, said APAWU Prakasam District Secretary K. Anjaneyulu, while informing of the resolutions passed at the meeting. In the current regulations, there are no provisions to punish those who acquire such land. Efforts to give landless and impoverished populations vast tracts of land have been wasted. In order to implement the objective more effectively, the Andhra Pradesh Land Allocation (Prohibition of Transfers) Act 1977 was created as protective legislation to prevent the alienation of land ceded to the landless poor and to punish buyers from these countries. The law was enacted only after a long struggle by Dalit organizations to protect the landless poor in 1977, when influential figures from below usurped the country through various “dubious means,” APAWU district president Jala Anjaiah recalled. Changes to the law by the previous Telugu Desam party government allowed the sale of this land 20 years after the date of allocation to Dalits. But the government of Jagan Mohan Reddy is proposing to allow the land to be sold 10 years after it was allocated to the landless poor.
The Andhra Pradesh Land Allocation (Prohibition of Transfers) Act 1977 came into force to protect land given to the poor in society. The main purpose of the law is to support and protect people who are truly landless, but due to the misapplication of this law, many loopholes have been created in this law. In addition, some recommendations have been made to improve this state of affairs and to ensure that the law does not divert attention from its main purpose. At least half of the more than 55 lakh hectares distributed to Dalits in undivided Andhra Pradesh had escaped the hands of the beneficiaries, complained the district secretary of the Bharatiya Union Kisan Mazdoor, K.Venkata Rao. The amendment to the law allowing the sale of land allocated to Dalits after 10 years would go against the interests of Dalits, he said. In addition, paragraph 3 of article 3 of the Act stipulates that any transfer or acquisition of government land or surplus land granted to poor people without land for cultivation or as residential land provided that it is not disposed of by purchase, gift, lease, mortgage, exchange or other land shall be declared null and void under this Act. (2C) The authorized family is only allocated a plot of land once in its life. Over the years, it has been discovered that much land given to poor people is not in their possession. The Andhra Pradesh Land (Prohibition of Transfers) Act 1977 was enacted by the state government to put an end to this trend. This law is a protective law designed to protect and support those who are truly landless and destitute. This law makes it illegal to sell land allocated to the poor for agriculture or settlement to others. Under all applicable conditions and other laws, the transfer of transferred land is prohibited.
Any document signed solely for the transfer is invalid and illegal. Even a civil court cannot issue a decree on such allocated land transactions. (2B) If the location of the assigned house was sold by the transferee at the time this Act comes into force, that location of the house is regulated in favour of the foreign national as a one-time measure. This law prohibits the transfer of land allocated to poor landless people (by alienation or sale to third parties). The territories given to the landless are hereditary, but not saleable. If the collector of the county or another officer authorized by the collector violates this provision, the collector of the county or another officer authorized by him may confiscate the transferred lands, evict the person in possession after giving him a reasonable opportunity to leave the land and return the land to the original assignee or his legal heir. If a renovation is not possible, the government can take back the property for a new use. Under section 5, no registrar may accept for registration a document relating to the transfer or creation of an interest in transferred lands appearing on a list of property allocated in the district prepared by the collector of the county and made available to the registrar from the coming into force of this Act. regardless of what is stated in the Registration Act of 1908. This law is retroactive, which means that it applies to sales that took place before the law came into force. This is an option rarely used by tax authorities.
Vast tracts of land that were to go to the landless poor were alienated and ended up in the hands of the non-poor. The most urgent need of the day is to assess the extent of alienation and to make efforts to restore or allocate land to the poor. `(2a) No transferee may transfer a transferred piece of land and no one may acquire an allocated residential land, whether by purchase, gift, lease, mortgage, exchange or otherwise, until the end of the period of 20 years from the date of transfer. The Andhra Pradesh Land (Prohibition of Transfers) Act 1977 came into force to protect and protect people who are truly landless, but there are some loopholes in this law due to ineffective law enforcement. With the change of circumstances and to define each article more precisely, there have been various changes to this law and there is currently a bill passed by the Legislative Assembly in 2020 that carries the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Amendment) Bill, 2020. Deputy Prime Minister Dharmana Krishna Das introduced the bill and explained the purpose of the bill. The main purpose of the law was to give farmers 25,000 rupees a year as rent for a morning and to take their land for rent only if farmers agreed to give it away voluntarily. In accordance with article 6, nothing in this Act shall apply to transferred land controlled or administered by the State or central government, local authority, cooperative, proposed bank or any other financial institution owned by a State or central government, controlled or administered by a State or central government, held on the hypothec, as the government can communicate in this regard.
In the sense that it provides for the recovery, restoration and distribution of ceded land, the Andhra Pradesh Ceded Land (Prohibition of Transfers) Act 1977 is a stand-alone code. With the exception of section 2 of the Act, which entered into force on 21 January 1977, the remaining sections entered into force on 29 January 2007. However, subsection 3(1) of the Act not only prohibits the transfer of land transferred from the coming into force of the Act, but also states that all transfers of surrendered land that took place before the coming into force of the Act are null and void and that no right or title in such transferred lands belongs to a person who acquires the land through such a transfer. While section 3 of the Act sets out certain restrictions on the transfer of allocated lands, section 4 of the Act describes the effects of the violation of section 3. Only § 4 comes into play in the event of a violation of § 3, i.e. the sale of the allocated land. The government had given government land to landless and impoverished people who had no other source of income. In Andhra Pradesh, these land allocations are controlled by the council`s rules of procedure, but in Telangana they are regulated by the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana region) Land Revenue Act 1317 Fasli.
Nevertheless, the rules governing these allocations of property and the conditions for the allocation of State land remain the same.
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