Governor is pleased to fix the amount of administrative cost to be borne by the requiring departments towards direct purchase of land as follows:
Governor is pleased to allow the various departments of the State Government and the Central Government department to go in for the direct purchase of land for public purpose.
Clarification on some issues in the matter of Direct Purchase of Land under the Notification No. 756-LP dated 25.02.2016.
Certificate from the concerned DLLRO/ BLLRO that no government vested land (Khatian-I)/ other government land (of other departments/ parastatals) is available for this purpose.
There shall be a 4 (four) member committee, comprising of Executive Engineer (Civil), Assistant Engineer (Civil) of the concerned district/ project, representative from planning wing of PHE Directorate and an officer of the L&LR and RRR Department to be nominated by the District Collector, for identification of suitable land (s) for the proposed project (s).
Direct purchase of land for public purpose mainly involving the early commissioning of infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, food godowns, drinking water, flood protection and other similar projects in rural and/or urban areas.
Direct Purchase of Land for Public purposes to ensure optimal utilisation of public funds and early implementation of important infrastructure projects like food godowns, roads, bridges etc.
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to deal with Court Cases involving Land Acquisition/ utilisation matters under Irrigation & Waterways Department, Government of West Bengal.
Standard Operating Procedure for mutation of lands acquired under the various land acquisition related Acts and Direct Land Purchase Policy in favour of Requiring Bodies, through LA Module in e-Bhuchitra.
West Bengal is the leader in land reforms in the country. If we look back to the history, it is the Regulation of 1793 which created Zamindary system with full proprietary right in the land subject to the payment of the land revenue.