State Act

The Haryana Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act,1961

5[5A. (1) .(1) A panchayat may, gift, sell, exchange or lease the land in shamilat deh vested in it under this Act to such persons including members of Schedules Castes and Backward Classes on such terms and conditions, as may be prescribed: 6[ ********] 7[(1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a Panchayat may, with the prior approval of the 8[Director, Development and Panchayats Department], transfer its non-cultivable land in shamilat deh by sale to the inhabitant of the village who has constructed on or before the 31st March, 2004, a house or part thereof alongwith open space upto twenty-five percent of the constructed area, both put together not exceeding five hundred square yards and not causing any obstruction to traffic and other public utilities and also not a land reserved for pond or any other water body or revenue rasta entered as such in revenue record, 1[at such rate as may be prescribed.] (2) The gift, sale, exchange or lease of the land in shamilat deh already made shall be deemed to have been made under sub-section (1).] 2[(3) The land in shamilat deh gifted to a department, Board or any agency of the State Government by the Panchayat by passing a resolution and without prior approval of the State Government before the 4th April, 2007 shall be regularized by the panchayat by forwarding the said resolution to the State Government for obtaining approval. The State Government may grant approval to such resolution.]