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EAS.15 --- Equality over land rent obtainded from District-owned Land



DRAFT-1 (citizens need to pass this draft in the Parliament)

Transfer of land plots from Union to States

  1. The Union Govt will transfer ALL land it owns, EXCEPT land used by Military, Central Police Force, Railways, Posts, Tax Collection Dept, Forests, Central Govt Auditors, Space Applications, Passport Issuance, Courts, Central Regulatory Authorities, Advanced Reasearch in Science and Technology, Medical Education, Public Distribution System and Recruitment for Central Govt Depts to the State, after the State Assembly requests a transfer.

  2. The Union Govt will transfer ALL land it owns, which is being used by Welfare related depts, NGOs, non-medical educational institutes such as IIMs, JNU, IITs, UGC etc. to the State, after the State Assembly requests a transfer.

  3. The Union Govt will transfer ALL land it owns, which is being used by Departments, Units or Instititues that citizenry of India does NOT consider as primary function of Central Govt.

  4. To decide if a Dept, Unit or Institute is serving primary function of Central Govt or not, the decision of majority of State High Courts' Jurors will be final and binding on Central Govt.

  5. The request sent by the State Assembly must have YESes of at least 33% of all citizen-voters in that State, not merely YESes of the MLAs. The request should also have enumerated list of plots with their plot numbers.

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DRAFT-2 (citizens need to pass this draft in the Assembly)

Transfer of land plots from State to District

  1. The State Govt will transfer ALL land it owns, except land used by Police Force, Land Records Dept, Hospitals, Medical Education, Tax Collection Dept, Courts, Prisons, Public distribution System, Forets, Pollution Control Dept, Assembly, Irrigation, Roads and Scientific Research to the District, after the District Panchayat requests a transfer.

  2. The State Govt will transfer ALL land it owns, which is being used by Welfare related depts, NGOs, non-medical educational institutes to the Districts, after the District Panchayat requests a transfer.

  3. The State Govt will transfer ALL land it owns, which is being used by Departments, Units or Instititues that citizenry resident in the State does NOT consider as primary functions of State Govt.

  4. The request sent by the District Panchayat must have YESes of at least 33% of all citizen-voters in that District, not merely YESes of the Members of Disrtict Panchayat. The request should also have enumerated list of plots with their plot numbers.

  5. To decide if a Dept, Unit or Institute is serving primary function of State Govt or not, the decision of majority of District Courts' Jurors will be final and binding on State Govt.

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  DRAFT-3 (citizens need to pass this draft in the District Panchayat)

Equality over rent collected from District-owned land

 
Equality over Rent Collected from District-owned Land --- Section   1   :   Preamble
  Every citizen resident in a District has equal rights over rent collected from District Govt from the users of the plots owned by the District. This Act is to create administrative procedures, using which, citizens can directly obtain the rent from the plots owned by the District Govt.

Section   2   : Format of the act
2.1 Many of the clauses of this law are procedures or instructions, which may be an order or a request. The clause has a list of persons for whom that procedure/instruction is meant for.

Section   3   : Appointing senior officers
3.1 [Person responsible for this procedure : Sarpanch of District Panchayat] Within 15 days after passing of this law, the Sarpanch will appoint 1 Registrar and 1 Land Rent Collecting Officer.

3.2 [Person responsible for this procedure : Land Rent Collection Officer] The Rent Colletor will make a list of plots that are owned by the District, and will put the list on the internet, and give a print copy to the Sarpanch. For each of the plot, he will work out the market value based on sales made in past year within the vicinity.

3.3 [Person responsible for this procedure : District Panchayat] The Panchayat will decide the annual rate of rent as 3/4th of interest on RBI bonds or 10 year interest rate on bank FDs of nationalized banks. The Panchayat's decision will be final.

3.4 [Person responsible for this procedure : District Panchayat] The Rent Colletor will compute the yearly rent on each of the plot as (market value * annual rent rate). If the ownership of District is partial i.e. the plot is only partly owned by the District and partly owned by the user, the rent will be pro-rated as %-ownership of the District.

3.5 [Person responsible for this procedure : Land Rent Collection Officer] The Rent Colletor will collect the rent every quarter. If a user does not pay rent for over 3 months, the Rent Collector will ask a Jury to issue eviction order. If the Jury issues an eviction order, the Rent Collector will evict the user. The Sarpanch will issue a tender to seek a new tenant.

3.6 If a tenant believes that Rent Collection Officer has over valued the market value, he may approach Grand Jury, who may ask Jurors to decide the market value using valuators' opinions.


Section   4   : Procedures to distribute rent
4.1 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar ; ] The Registrar will distribute the rent equally amongst citizen-residents of the District by direct deposit into bank accounts or postal savings accounts.

4.2 [Person responsible for this procedure/directive: Registrar ; Purpose : To reduce population growth and maintain female/male ratio] One year after passing this law, and after re-approval by District Panchayat Members by Direct Vote where at least over 33% citizens have registered YESes, the persons with more than 1 male children will get half the normal share (twins, triplets etc will be counted as 1 child).

Section   5   : Procedures to replace Land Rent Collection Officer
5.1 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] Any citizen of India who wants citizens’ Approval for the position of Rent Collector can register himself with the Registrar. The Registrar will charge a registration fee of Rs 1000 and a monthly fee Rs 200 per month. There will be no fee after over 1% of ALL citizens have approved the candidate.
5.2 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar, Registrar’s clerks] A citizen can present his ID and specify the serial numbers of (at most 5) candidates he Approves for the position of Rent Collector. 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.
5.3 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] The clerk may charge a fee of upto Rs 5 from the citizen.
5.4 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar] The citizen can withdraw his Approvals any day. There will be no fee from withdrawing the Approvals.
5.5 [Person responsible for this procedure : Mayor] If any candidate is approved by highest number of citizen-voters and over 25% of ALL citizen-voters in that district, the Mayor will appoint him as new Rent Collector within 2 days. If any candidate is approved by over 25% of ALL citizen-voters and his approval is 1% more than existing Rent Collector, the Mayor will appoint him as new Rent Collector within 2 days. The Mayor cannot remove a Rent Collector, previously approved by citizens, unless Approval goes below 20% of ALL citizens.
5.6 [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

Section   6   : Other Details
6.1 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.
6.2 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 Districts in which the district falls. Under this law, a citizen cannot complaint before any Minister, officers or judges.
6.3 The Jurors will judge this Act, guidelines, intentions as well as the facts related to the case


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