Rural Administration CBSE Class 6 Civics Notes | DailyHomeStudy

Measuring the land and maintaining the records is the main work of the Patwari- known by different names in different states – in some villages, such officers are called Lekhpal-Kanungo or Karamchari or Village Officer and so on. Each Patwari -responsible for a group of villages-maintains and updates the records of the village-has ways of measuring agricultural fields.
Patwari is responsible for organising the collection of land revenue from the farmers-provides information to the government about the crops grown in this area-done from the records that are kept-so, it’s important for the Patwari to regularly update these as farmers may change the crop they grow or someone may dig a well somewhere- revenue department of the government keep track of all this -Senior people in this department supervise the Patwari’s work.
Every state in India is divided into districts-for managing matters relating to land, these districts are further sub-divided- subdivisions of a district are known by different names such as tehsil, taluka and so on.
At the head is the District Collector-under her revenue officers, also known as tehsildars hear disputes-supervise the work of the Patwaris-ensure that records are properly kept-land revenue is collected.-make sure that the farmers can easily obtain a copy of their record-students can obtain their caste certificates and more.
Tehsildar’s office is where land disputes are also heard.

Farmers who own land are mostly men-Women work in the fields, but not own agricultural land.
In some states, Hindu women did not get a share in the family’s agricultural land.
After the death of the father his property was divided equally only among his sons.
Recently, the law was changed.
As per the new law, sons, daughters and their mothers get an equal share in the land and the same law applies to all states and union territories of the country.
This law will benefit a large number of women.

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