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Section 103: Land and Abadi defined for the purposes of Chapter VI

The Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan (the "updated" English file), with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 9 of 2022.

A Rajasthan Land Revenue (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2025 (Bill No. 7 of 2025) inserts section 100-A (Government land placed at the disposal of RIICO for industrial areas) and clause (xvii-a) in section 261(2). Its Act number and assent could not be confirmed from an official source; these changes are not shown in this text.

This copy does not print the Chapter headings of the Act and contains many typing errors (for example "swim partition" and "audible estate" in section 186); the text is reproduced as printed.

For the purpose of this Chapter, unless the subject or context otherwise requires -

(a) "Land" means land belonging to all or any of the following categories -

(i) Land as defined in clause (24) of Section 5 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (Rajasthan Act 3 of 1955),

(ii) Land acquired under the provisions of the Rajasthan Land Acquisition Act, 1953 (Rajasthan Act 24 of 1953) .for the purpose of Government or a local authority or an educational institution while such land remains the properly of Government or such local authority or educational institution, asthe case may be,

(iii) Land surveyed and recorded, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, during any proceeding relating to sunny and preparation of records or otherwise belonging to the Government, or a local authority, which is used for any public purpose such as a road or pathway,

(iv) Land surveyed and recorded as aforesaid for the use of the community such as goober, cremation-ground or graveyard,

(v) Land in possession `of the Govemment or a local authority obtained by transfer or otherwise,

(vi) Nazul land as defined in clause (iv) of Section 3, and

(vii) Land within the abadi area vesting in a local authority or land reserved and set apart for special purposes under Section 92, and inclues benefits toarise out ofsuch land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth; and

(b) “abadi” or “abadi area”or “abadi land” means the population area of a village, town or city and includes the site of such village, town or city, land reserved and set apart under Section 92 for the development of abadi therein and land held therein for building purposes whether a building has been constructed thereon or not.

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