G.O.(Ms) No.54, Tenth Agricultural Census 2015-16 State Level Co-ordination Committee

What the government order does

G.O.(Ms) No.54 dated 31 May 2016 establishes a State Level Coordination Committee to monitor the different activities of the Tenth Agricultural Census 2015-16 and help resolve obstacles to timely completion. It follows a Government of India request for regular state coordination and district level involvement by Revenue, Agriculture, and Economics and Statistics authorities.

Committee membership

The State Level Coordination Committee consists of:

• The Principal Secretary to Government, Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Department, as Chairman.
• The Principal Secretary and Commissioner, Department of Economics and Statistics, as Member Secretary.
• The Additional Chief Secretary and Commissioner, Land Administration Department, as a member.
• The Commissioner of Agriculture, as a member.
• The Senior Technical Director, National Informatics Centre, as a member.
• The Deputy Director General, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Co-operation and Farmers Welfare, as a member.

Land record and field responsibilities

G.O.(Ms) No.54 directs Village Administrative Officers to collect the State's primary agricultural census data from village land records on a reclassification basis. Revenue Department supervisory officials must inspect the field work.

The District Revenue Officer is the overall supervisory authority for revenue records and is designated as the District Agricultural Census Officer. The relevant Tahsildar is designated as the Taluk Agricultural Census Officer. Both are responsible for agricultural census work within their respective districts and taluks.

Inspection targets

G.O.(Ms) No.54 fixes the following village inspection targets:

• District Revenue Officer, 5 villages, one in a month.
• Revenue Divisional Officer, 5 villages, one in a month.
• Tahsildar or Deputy Tahsildar, 5 villages.
• Revenue Inspector, 5 villages.
• Regional Joint Director of Statistics, 15 villages.
• District Deputy Director of Statistics, 20 villages.
• Divisional Assistant Director of Statistics, 15 villages.

The Additional Chief Secretary and Commissioner of Land Administration must review progress and report every month to the Principal Secretary and Commissioner of the Department of Economics and Statistics.

Relevance to landowners and buyers

G.O.(Ms) No.54 is an administrative arrangement for the agricultural census. It uses village land records as a source of primary data, but it does not state that ownership, title, land classification, registration procedures, or individual property rights are changed.