Kudiyiruppu ownership case list request
P. Ilango, Director of Land Reforms (in charge), issued D.O. Letter Number D2/1196/2006 (Land Reforms), dated 24 March 20010 as printed, asking District Collectors to list certain Kudiyiruppu occupation cases for possible submission to the Government. The letter confirms that the existing eligibility cut-off remained 1 April 1990 and seeks information to examine, but does not approve, an extension up to 1 April 2000.
What the letter does
D.O. Letter Number D2/1196/2006 (Land Reforms), dated 24 March 20010 as printed, was issued by P. Ilango, Director of Land Reforms (in charge). It asks District Collectors to provide details of agriculturists, agricultural labourers and rural artisans who occupied Kudiyiruppu up to 1 April 2000.
The information was sought because a proposal to extend the eligibility date up to 1 April 2000 was to be examined and initiated for consideration by the Government. District Collectors were asked to send the case list in the prescribed format on or before 20 April 2010. Special Deputy Collectors and Assistant Commissioners of the Revenue Court were also asked to provide district-wise figures for cases received from 1 April 1994 to 1 April 2000.
Existing ownership position
The Tamil Nadu Occupants of Kudiyiruppu (Conferment of Ownership) Act, 1971 provides ownership to an agriculturist or agricultural labourer who occupied a Kudiyiruppu on agricultural land on 19 June 1971 as a tenant or licensee. The Kudiyiruppu vests in the eligible occupant free from encumbrances.
The Tamil Nadu Kudiyiruppu Laws (Amendment) Act, 1990, Tamil Nadu Act 39/90, extended eligibility to Kudiyiruppudars and rural artisans occupying Kudiyiruppu as on 1 April 1990. The Director of Land Reforms states that the time limit had not been extended after 1 April 1990. The request for cases up to 1 April 2000 is therefore an information-gathering exercise, not an extension of ownership eligibility.
Who and what are covered
The letter gives the following key meanings:
- A Kudiyiruppu is the site of a dwelling house or hut occupied by an agriculturist or agricultural labourer as tenant or licensee.
- An agriculturist personally cultivates agricultural land through their own manual labour or that of a family member.
- An agricultural labourer principally earns wages from manual labour on agricultural land. Plantation labourers are excluded.
- Agricultural land includes land used for horticulture, crops, grazing, manure crops, dairy farming, poultry farming, livestock breeding and growing trees.
- Plantations, land held for plantation-related purposes, house sites and land used exclusively for non-agricultural purposes are excluded.
Administration and records
Special Deputy Collectors of the Revenue Court pass orders on Kudiyiruppu ownership matters. Under Section 5 of the Act, the District Collector or District Revenue Officer is the appellate authority.
The requested case statement records the taluk, village, survey number, extent, classification, owner, occupant, occupation period and remarks. These details may be relevant when checking whether a property was identified as a Kudiyiruppu occupation case.
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Common questions
Did this letter extend Kudiyiruppu ownership eligibility to 1 April 2000?
No. The Director of Land Reforms states that eligibility had not been extended beyond 1 April 1990. The letter only requests case details so that a possible extension up to 1 April 2000 could be examined and proposed to the Government.
Who passes orders on Kudiyiruppu ownership claims?
Special Deputy Collectors of the Revenue Court pass orders in these matters. The District Collector or District Revenue Officer is the appellate authority under Section 5 of the Act.
Does every occupied house site qualify as a Kudiyiruppu?
No. The letter defines Kudiyiruppu as the site of a dwelling house or hut occupied as tenant or licensee by an agriculturist or agricultural labourer. House sites and land used exclusively for non-agricultural purposes are excluded from its definition of agricultural land.
What property details were District Collectors asked to provide?
The prescribed statement asks for the taluk, village, survey number, extent, classification, owner, occupant, period of occupation and remarks for each case.
