'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1914-1915' [‎189r] (47/150)

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WARDS AND OTHER ESTATES.
During the year 213,386 sub-divisions were measured and mapped in 857 villages and
assessments were calculated on 172,699 sub-divisions in 345 villages. In addition 2 parties
were drafted for about 2 months to demarcate the sub-divisions in irrigated areas of the Haveli
and Kopargaon talukas. They demarcated 6,533 sub-divisions in 14 villages in Haveli taluka
and 2,358 sub-divisions in 20 villages in Kopargaon taluka. New sub-divisions in Govern
ment villages and all sub-divisions in irrigated in dm villages were measured part passu with
the demarcation. With regard to the Southern Division, in the Konkan districts 5 parties
consisting of 93 measurers and 5 supervised by a survey Mamlatdar were working.
Each nimtdnddr was given a clerk and a. peon A low-ranking infantryman, orderly or assistant (South Asian context). for office work. In Kolaba work was com
pleted in Uran peta, Roha taluka (khoti villages), and Panvel and Pen talukas. Khalapur
taluka was partially completed. In the Ratnagiri district work was done in the Ratnagiri,
Sangameshwar and Vengurla talukas but in none of them was it completed. The number
of hissas measured and amalgamated is as follows :—
District.
Hissas measured.
Hissas amalgamated.
Kolaba
37> 26 5
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Ratnagiri
61,487
25,482
In the Karnatic districts 7 parties of-120 men under 7 nimtdnddrs supervised by a survey
Mamlatdar were working. The plane table A basic surveying technique using an alidade attached to a horizontally mounted drawing board.  was used by one party in the Bankapur taluka for
the measurement of complicated rice survey numbers. In Bijapur the talukas of Bagewadi,
Sindffi Indi and Hungund were completed. The Muddebihal taluka is in hand. The number
of hissas measured was 62,910. In Dharwar the talukas of Bankapur, Hungal, Kalghatgi and
Hubli were completed ; Kod taluka is in hand. The number of hissas measured was
78,202.
2.—Sind.
1. The usual four weeks’ survey class was attended by two Assistant Collectors, one • Training classes.
Deputy Collector and three Mukhtyarkars. All were granted certfficates after examination.
Eleven taluka head munshis A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. and clerks and3 munshisfrom the record office were sent up for.
3 months’ survey training ; of these 9 head munshis A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. and clerks and one munshi A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. from the
record office successfully passed the certificate examination. Of the 20 untrained tapadars
who presented themselves for the survey examination 12 passed the test and were granted
certificates. At the final examination of the Tapadars’ Training School 128 students appeared
of whom 108 passed. Seven ex-students, who failed in the previous final examination but had
been allowed to reappear, were also examined. All of them passed the test.
2. Duriiw the year the record was promulgated in seventy-six debs of the Karachi Record-of-Rights.
taluka of the Karachi district, in one deh of the Nawabshah taluka and in three dehs of the
Sakrand taluka of the Nawabshah district and in forty-seven dehs of the Johi taluka of the
Larkana district. The record was revised and re-written in talukas Mirpur Sakro and
Ghorabari of Karachi district, Kandiaro, Moro and Naushahro of Nawabshah district and
Samrhar of the Thar and Parkar district. With the exception of the Thar and Parkar
desert and barani and other unsettled tracts the record now forms the basis of the land
revenue accounts throughout the Province and it was on the whole fairly well maintained
during the year.
o Sub division operations were started in November and completed in April. I he Sub-division
operations were carried out in two compact sets of taiukas, 4 in the Sukkur district and measurement.
2 in the Larkana district. The number of sub-divisions measured was 40,478 as against
41,227 in the previous year. The parties were under the supervision of a special
MukhtyarKar.
5, —Wards 5 and other Estates.
For details see the Reports of the Talukdari Settlement Officer the Report on the Administration of Incumbered
Estates in Sind, and the Reports on the Administration of Minors’ Estates and of the Estates under the Manage
ment of the Courts of Wards for 1914-15.
I> Estates in charge of the Ta'lukda’ri Settlement Officer.
t The Talukdari Settlement Officer is in revenue charge of all 1 alukdari villages in Revenue
the Ahmedabad district and is responsible lor jama and takdvi in them. In the Ahmedabad adnmmstrat.on.
district the jama due for collection, including arrears of past yeais, amounted to Rs. .A 'Jo 2 1
of which Rs. 3,79,287 were recovered and Rs. 5,762 were remitted, leaving Rs. 4,472 f 0 r
future collection at the end of the year. Takdvi was granted to the extent ot Rs. 19,895 and
Rs. 3,52,969 were recovered on this account during the year.
2. At the close of the year in the three districts of Ahmedabad, Kaira and Broach, »'
there were 37 estates under the management of the Court of Wards and 27 under the maMgement .
Guardians and Wards Act, separate detailed reports of which have been submitted to Govern-
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