<aside> 💡 Azmoish means the inspection of lands and fields to record the details of crops raised, trees, wells and others in Village Account No.2 (adangal) and to assess the approximate outturn of the crop. The Revenue Inspector shall azmoish and the Deputy Tahsildars shall do over azmoish to check the correctness thereof.
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It is the primary duty of the Village Administrative Officer to register in the adangal that the details of crops raised in the land, trees standing on all government lands (whether under tree tax system or not), cases of unauthorized occupation of Government lands, cases of Fasli Jasthi and Theervai Jasthi etc. This recording of crops should be done every month by the Village Administrative Officer. The cultivation account in (Village Account) Form No.1 and 1A shall be prepared every month. The Village Administrative Officer should furnish the area under different kinds of crops harvested, outturn etc. This statement must be collected from the Village Administrative Officers by the Revenue Inspector. He must then prepare a firka report similarly. The reports for the entire taluk is to be collected by the Tahsildar. He shall convene a meeting on 25th of every month which will be attended to by the Revenue Inspectors, Agricultural Officers and Taluk Statistical Inspector. The area under various crops for the Taluk shall be discussed and finalized. He will send a report to the District Revenue Officer based on this meeting. Similarly the District Revenue Officer at the district level shall have discussions with Joint Director (Agriculture), Joint Director (Horticulture), Assistant Director (Statistics) and Tahsildars and finalise the District figure. The District report shall then be sent to the Government. Along with this reports sent by Agriculture Department helps to decide the total quantity of paddy and other cereals produced in the State and to find out whether it is deficit or buffer. As such this is an important item of work.
The Revenue Inspector should attend to azmoish in all the Villages in the Firka every month especially during the cultivation season. By this he would ensure that all the wet lands and atleast 50% of the Dry lands are inspected. The azmoish should generally begin with the irrigation sources in the Villages. He must assess the water position with reference to Village Account No.20 (Rainfall statement). He should also find out whether the tanks require repair. He must take up an area for azmoish on a day so that he can complete inspection of all lands within a reasonable time. While doing azmoish the following require his attention.
a) All the lands should be inspected during the period first crop is raised with the aid of water from Government source. This may vary for area covered under Cauvery Mettur Project, first crop is Kuruvai (July to September / October) and the second crop shall October / November / January / February.
b) When water is available in the tank after harvest of the first crop, it is possible to raise second crop with the aid of tank water. If water is taken for the second crop, it should be recorded for levy of fasli Jasthi. Water need not necessarily be taken or made available for the entire crop period. Even if it is taken for a few days, Fasli Jasthi is leviable. The details should be recorded by the Revenue Inspector.
c) Certain lands are classified as Baling wet lands during settlement and remission granted every year, since at the time of settlement the land did not get direct flow of water and water has to be baled using human or animal power. It must be personally verified whether water is still taken by baling and water does not flow direct. If water flows direct, the remission should be stopped. Specific remarks of the inspecting officer on this should be recorded to correct the accounts. If necessary, at the time of Jamabandhi.
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a) The occupation in Government lands should be The nature of occupation, name of the occupier, the period of occupation and whether objectionable or not should be recorded.
b) The occupation as mentioned above may be way of Water for raising the crops may even be taken from the Government source or in a well in a Government land. The source of irrigation should also be recorded to decide the levy of Thirvai Jasthi.
c) The details of structures like buildings, Pumpsets, , should be noted.
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(i) There may be trees both fruit bearing and non-fruit bearing. The number of trees under different species shall be indicated in the
(ii) The number of trees covered by 2C Patta and number alive shall be verified and entered. Action shall be taken to delete the trees not available on ground from the 2C Patta list besides appropriate action for the loss.
(iii) Auction to sell the usufructs of trees should be initiated, if the land is not vested in Panchayat.
(e) Inspect lands, held on lease, transferred and alienated and verify whether there are violations of conditions.