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CHATPTER XI Assessment of Land Revenue

Section 157: Remission or suspension of land revenue on the occurrence of agricultural calamity

The Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 20 of 2026.

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(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Code, the State Government may, on the occurrence of an agricultural calamity affecting the crops of any village, or part of a village, remit or suspend, for any period, the whole or any part of the land revenue of any holding affected by such calamity.

(2) The State Government may likewise remit or suspend, for any period, the rent payable by an asami to the 1[Gram Panchayat], in a village or part where such calamity has occurred.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 2(a) of U. P. Act no. 04 of 2016.

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