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Q.1
Q.1: Answer in a sentence or two, any six
12 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)What is the meaning of ceiling area?[2]
Answer
The ceiling area is the maximum area of agricultural land that a person or a family unit may hold. It is fixed under the Maharashtra Agricultural Lands (Ceiling on Holdings) Act, 1961. Land held above it is surplus land (section 3).
How it is fixed (section 5). The First Schedule fixes a separate ceiling for each class of land in each district or taluka. The better the irrigation, the smaller the ceiling.
- Land with assured irrigation for two crops: 18 acres.
- Land with assured irrigation for one crop: 27 acres.
- Seasonally irrigated land, and dry crop land under paddy in certain districts: 36 acres.
- Other dry crop land: 54 acres.
A mixed holding is converted into dry crop land in the ratio of these ceilings (section 5(3)).
Who it applies to. It applies to a family unit as a whole. That unit is a person, the spouse and their minor sons and minor unmarried daughters (section 4). A unit of more than five members gets one-fifth more for each extra member, up to twice the ceiling (section 6). Exempted land does not count, and may be held to any extent (section 3(1), Explanation).
From when. The lowered ceilings apply from the commencement date, 2 October 1975 (section 2(6A)).
Validity. In Dattatraya Govind Mahajan v. State of Maharashtra (1977) 2 SCC 548 the 1975 amendments that lowered the ceiling and introduced the family unit were challenged. The Supreme Court upheld the family unit and its ceiling. It held that they did not offend the second proviso to Article 31A(1).
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