Revenue officers must take responsibility to correct land administration: BJSM

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KOKRAJHAR: Bodoland Janajati Suraksha Mancha (BJSM) has asserted that the Revenue Officers should be responsible for correct land administration as per law in tribal belt and block and face punishment for the wrong implementation of the law.

The president of the BJSM Janaklal Basumatary said the proposed amendment of Assam Land and Land Revenue Regulation Act, 1886 for giving land right to indigenous people of the State was basically directed against the restricted land rights in tribal belts and blocks in Assam which was provided by the State government of Assam by an amendment of the said Assam Land Regulation 1886 in 1947 after the independence of India, providing restricted land rights for tribal people in the notified tribal belts and blocks areas by inserting chapter X of the said Assam Land and Regulation with extending section 160 to 171.

The amended chapter is not part of original Assam Land Regulation 1886 of British government. The notified tribal belts and blocks land administration after Independence is ratified by the constitutional provision of tribal area land administration in 5th schedule and 6th schedule of the Constitution of India under Art. 244 (1)(2) of India, he said adding that under 5th schedule the land transaction right was restricted for other communities except schedule tribes recognized under Art.342 of the Constitution of India.

"It is clear intention of Assam government in the name of indigenous status they want to amend the tribal area administration of 5th schedule and sixth schedule area only. Because in general areas they have all rights to get land transaction right and land allotment right. Their land transaction right is not denied in the general area administration. Moreover there is no constitutional provision to reserve or restrict the land transaction right for all indigenous people other than schedule tribe in the State. The tribal belts and blocks areas and sixth schedule area in Assam must be excluded from this proposed amendment. The intended recognition of this indigenous status to the people of Assam must not include the migrated people from foreign country or other State of India during British rule and after the independence of India for the purpose of this special land right amendment," he said adding that the migrated Assamese community in other states of India was not the indigenous of that migrated state and similarly indigenous status of Assam must be defined in this line to confer special land right in the general administration area on the ground of indigenous status.

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