State Act

The Telangana Abolition of Inams Act, 1955.

8. (1) Every non-protected tenant, shall, with effect from the date of vesting subject to section 37 of 15[the Telangana Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1950] be entitled to be registered as an occupant of such inam lands in his possession as may be left over after the allotment under section 4 which, immediately before the date of vesting, were under his personal cultivation and which, together with any lands he separately owns and cultivates personally, are equal to four and a half times the ‘family holding’. (2) The non-protected tenant shall be ‘entitled’, to compensation from the Government as provided for under this Act in respect of inam lands in his possession in excess of the limit prescribed in sub-section (1) whether cultivated or not. (3) No non-protected tenant shall be registered as an occupant of any land under sub-section (1) unless he pays to the Government as premium an amount equal to sixty times the land revenue for dry land and twenty times for wet land. The amount of permium shall be payable in not more than ten annual instalments along with the annual land revenue and in default of such payment, shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue due on the land in respect of which it is payable. 16[Provided that a non-protected tenant who is a poor person shall be entitled to be registered as an occupant under sub-section (1), without payment of any premium to the Government.]