Equal Allowance System over City-owned Residential/Commercial Land --- Section 1 : Preamble
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Every citizen resident in the City has equal rights over rent that comes from the land owned by the City. This Act is to create administrative procedures, using which, citizens can directly obtain the rent from the city-owned land.
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| Section 2 : Scope and format of the act 2.1
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This act applies ONLY on the plots owned by city govt, and NOT on the plots owned by the private parties in the city. The act does NOT also apply on plots in the city that are owned by Central and State Govt bodies.
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| The act may apply on the plots owned by Central and State Govt bodies, AFTER State/Central Govts hand over the land they do not need to the city.
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| If the city govt buys the plots from private parties, this act will apply on those plots as well.
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Many of the clauses of this law are procedures or instructions, which may be an order or a request. The clause has list of persons for whom that procedure/instruction is meant for.
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| Section 3 : Appointing senior officers and plotting of city-owned land 3.1
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[Person responsible for this procedure : Mayor] Within 15 days after passing of this law, the Mayor will appoint 1 Registrar, 1 Land Plotting Officer and 1 Anti Encroachment Officer for the city. | 3.2
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[Person responsible for this procedure : Land Plotting Officer] Within 30 days after appointment, the Land Plotting Officer will publish the plot boundaries for the lands in the City, and for each plot, he will decide the length of lease and conditions of use. |
| Section 4 : Procedures to allocate land allowances 4.1
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar] The Registrar will issue a serial number to any person or company which seeks to use the city-owned plots.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, Registrar’s Clerks ; Purpose: Allocation of citizen’s land allowance] (i) When the citizen gives his ID and serial number of the person/company who seeks to use the city-owned plots, the clerk will allocate Land Allowance of that citizen to that plot seeker. (ii)The clerk will provide a receipt to the citizen which will have citizen’s ID card number, land seeker's number, date and a serial number. (iii)The citizen can change the land seeker any day.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, Clerks; Purpose: Funding of Allocation] The clerk can charge a fee of upto Rs 5 from the citizen per allocation
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar] Every month the Registrar will issue the list of land users and list of citizens who have given allowances to them.
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| Section 5 : Procedures to allocate land 5.1
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar] On 5th of every month, the Registrar will issue Allowance to land seekers, equal to number of Allowances citizen-residents have given to land-seekers.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar] On 5th of every month, the Registrar will reduce the Allowances plot seekers had obtained over 6 six months ago by 10%.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar : Purpose : actual allocation of plots] on 1st of every month, the Registrar will publish the list of plots on which have NOT been allocated or the lease is to expire within next 6 months. The Registrar will hold the auction for plots on 15th of that month. The land seeker with highest number of allowances will decide the plot that will be auctioned. The bids will be in terms of the Allowances.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar : Purpose : actual allocation of plots] If the plot is already occupied by a party, he will need to bid only 50% of the Allowances that the highest bidder has bidded, to beat his bid.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar : Purpose : actual allocation of plots] If the existing plot holder loses the auction, he will get get Allowances equal to 50% of the highest bid.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Anti Encroachment Officer] The existing plot holder, if he loses the auction, will have to evacuate the plot at the end of the lease. If he does not, the Anti-encroachment officer will evacuate the land for him.
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| Section 5A : Procedures for providing pensions to Elders Same as section 5A of EAS.01. (please click here to see the entire section.)
| Section 5B : Procedures to reduce population growth same as section 5B of EAS.01 (please click here to see the entire section.)
| Section 6 : Procedures to replace Anti Encroachment Officer, Registrar, Plotting Officer and Mining Company 6.1
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[Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] Any citizen of India who wants citizens’ Approval for the position of Anti Encroachment Officer in the District can register himself with the Registrar. The Registrar will charge a registration fee of Rs 1000 and a monthly fee Rs 100 per month. There will be no fee after over 5% of ALL citizens have approved the candidate.
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[Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar, Registrar’s clerks] A citizen residing the city can present his ID and specify the serial numbers of (at most 5) candidates he Approves for the position of Anti Encroachment Officer. The clerk will enter the requests in the systems and give the receipt to the citizen. The citizen may change his choices any day any month.
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[Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] The clerk may charge a fee of upto Rs 5 from the citizen.
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[Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] The citizen can withdraw his Approvals any day. There will be no fee from withdrawing the Approvals.
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[Person responsible for this procedure : Mayor of Land and Lands] If any candidate is approved by highest number of citizen-voters and over 25% of ALL citizen-voters in the city, the Mayor will appoint him as new Anti Encroachment Officer within 2 days. If any candidate is approved by over 25% of ALL citizen-voters and his approval is 1% more than existing Anti Encroachment Officer, the Mayor will appoint him as new Anti Encroachment Officer within 2 days. The Mayor cannot remove a Land Officer, previously approved by citizens, unless Approval goes below 20% of ALL citizens.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar ; Purpose:] Word "citizen" in the context of Approval, means citizen above 18 and registered voter resident in the city
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, Mayor ; Purpose: Replacement of Land Plotting Officer] The Registrar and Mayor will also use procedures listed in 6.1 - 6.5 to enable citizens to replace Land Plotting Officer.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, Mayor ; Purpose: Replacement of Land Plotting Officer] The Registrar and Mayor will also use procedures listed in 6.1 - 6.5 to enable citizens to replace Registrar.
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[Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar, Mayor ; Purpose: Replacement of Land Plotting Officer] The Registrar and Mayor will also use procedures listed in 6.1 - 6.5 to enable citizens to replace the mining company on any of the plots.
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| Section 7 : Other Details 7.1
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The rupee amount used in this text uses July-2000 price levels. The officers in-charge can adjust the amounts every six months using RBI’s Inflation Index.
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If the officer does not execute a procedure or ignores an instruction stated in this Resolution/Act, a citizen can file a complaint before the Grand Jurors of the Citys in which the zone falls. Under this law, a citizen cannot complaint before the Mayor, officer or judges.
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The Jurors will judge this Act, guidelines, intentions as well as the facts related to the case
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