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92 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Amendment of section 21 of Bom. HI of 1874.— In section 21 for the words “such periods” the words “a period of 10 years” shall be substituted.
Amendment of section 83 of Bom. III of 1874.—For section 83, the following shall be substituted : —
“83. Except as is otherwise provided for in section 18, Government shall have power to make rules laying down the duties that are to appertain to any hereditary office. Provided that the rules made under this section shall be laid on the table of the Legislature for not less than one month previous to the next session thereof and shall be liable to be rescinded or modified by a resolution of the Legislature. If any rule is modified or rescinded, Government shall accept the modification and republish the rule accordingly or shall rescind the rule.”
Statement for Objects and Reasons
Three purposes underly the Bill. First is to permit commutation of the watan at the option of the holder, second to provide better security for the payment of the remuneration of certain classes of watandars and the third purpose is to provide for specification by rules of the duties to be performed by the watandars.
Sections 2-6 are designed to give effect to the first of these purposes. Sections 7-9 are intended to carry out the second purpose and section 10 is to meet the third purpose of the Bill,—
( i ) Section 2 allows a watandar who wishes to do so to free himself from the liability to serve as a watandar without involving a loss to his right to the land which formed part of his watan. While it allows such a watandar to retain the land it does not involve any loss to Government because Government will be entitled to recover from him full survey assessment.
( ii ) Sections 3 and 4 are formal.
( iii ) Section 5 makes it possible for one or some of the joint owners of the watan to apply for being relieved from service.
( iv ) Section 6 is intended to define more accurately who shall be liable for service to the community by the use of the word “primarily”.
( v ) Section 7 provides that there shall be no discretion left to the Collector in determining whether the collection shall be made in kind or in money.
( vi ) Section 8 adds four new sections to the Act. —Section 19A gives the right to watandars to apply to the Collector to convert payment in kind into payment in money and requires the Collector to convert the same in its money equivalent.
Section 19B places an obligation on the Collector to collect the money cess as part of the land revenue if required to do so by the watandars. Section 19C gives the Collector the power in cases where the remuneration of the watandar is a joint payment for services to Government as