Entrustment of land etc. to 2Gram Panchayats and other local authorities

Section 59 of Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code-2006 deals with entrustment of land etc. to 2Gram Panchayats and other local authorities. section (2), which vest in the State Government, to a [ Gram Panchayat] or other local authority for the purposes of superintendence, preservation, management and control in accordance with the provisions of this code. The Act was enacted on 11 Feb 2016.

59. (1) The State Government may, by general or special order to be published in the manner prescribed, entrust all or any of the things specified in sub-section (2), which vest in the State Government, to a ²[ Gram Panchayat] or other local authority for the purposes of superintendence, preservation, management and control in accordance with the provisions of this code.

(2) The following things may be entrusted to a ²[ Gram Panchayat] or other local authority under sub-section (1), namely

(i) lands, whether cultivable or otherwise, except land for the time being comprised in any holding or grove ;

(ii) grove standing on the ²[ Gram Panchayat] land, pasture land, graveyard, cremation-ground, manure pits, Khaliyans, Chakroads, link roads, sector roads, land in river bed, road, Sadak Khanti, Sullage farm ;

(iii) forests ; and fisheries ;

(iv) trees, other than trees in a holding or on the boundary of a holding or in a grove or abadi, or any trees on unoccupied land ;

(v) hats, bazars, melas, tanks, ponds, water-channels, private ferries, pathways, and abadi sites ;

(vi) subject to the provision of the Treasure Trove Act, 1878, any properties specified in section 55 and belonging to the State Government.

(3) Every land or other thing

(a) vested in a ¹[ Gram Panchayat] or any other local authority under the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953 or the Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960 ;

(b) placed under the charge of a ¹[ Gram Panchayat] or any other local authority under any of the enactments repealed by this Code ;

(c) otherwise coming into possession of a ¹[ Gram Panchayat] or other local authority, either before or after the commencement of this Code ;

shall be deemed to be entrusted to such 1Gram Panchayat or other local authority, as the case may be, with effect from the date of commencement of this Code or from the date of such coming into its possession, for the purpose of superintendence, preservation, management and control, in accordance with the provisions of this Code.

(4) The State Government may, by a subsequent order to be published in the manner prescribed,

2(a) (i) add to, amend, vary or rescind any earlier order issued under sub-section (1);

(ii) convert any land entrusted or deemed to be entrusted or transferred to any Gram Panchayat or local authority, which is not covered under sub-section (1) of section 77 to a land covered under sub-section (1) of section 77.

(b) transfer to any other 1Gram Panchayats or other local authority, any land or other thing entrusted or deemed to be entrusted under sub-section (1) or sub-section (3) for superintendence, preservation, management and control ;

3(c) (i) resume any land or other thing so entrusted or deemed to be entrusted or transferred to any Gram Panchayat or local authority on such terms and conditions as prescribed.

(ii) add to, amend, vary or rescind any earlier order issued under clause (i);]

(d) impose conditions and restrictions subject to which the powers of superintendence, preservation, management and control under this section shall be exercised.

(5) Where any of the things specified in sub-section (2) has been entrusted or deemed to have been entrusted to a ¹[ Gram Panchayat], and the village or any part thereof in which such things are situated lies outside the circle of the ¹[ Gram Panchayat], such ¹[ Gram Panchayat] or its Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti shall, subject to any general or special order issued by the State Government in this

behalf, perform, discharge and exercise the functions, duties and powers, assigned, imposed or conferred by or under this Code or the U. P. Panchayat Raj Act, 1947 on a 1Gram Panchayat or a Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti as if that village or part also lay within that circle.

(6) Where any of the things specified under sub-section (2) has been entrusted or deemed to be entrusted to a local authority other than the ²[ Gram Panchayat], the provisions of this Chapter shall mutatis mutandis apply to such local authority.

²[ Explanation: For the purpose of this section the word Local Authority includes Kshetra Panchayat, Zila Panchayat, Town Area, Notified Area, Cantonment Area, Nagar Panchayat, Nagar Palika, Nagar Mahapalika, Nagar Nigam, Noida Vikas Pradhikaran, Greater Noida Vikas Pradhikaran, Yamuna Expressway Vikas Pradhikaran or any Industrial township declared as an Industrial Development Area under the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act, 1976 under Article 243-Q of the Constitution of India.]

Section 59, Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code-2006 (Act 8 of 2012).