'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR, 1910-1911' [‎236r] (55/150)

t9I0 . l9 n.j REVENUE SURVEYS—SETTLEMENTS. lg
ronfined to the Dhandhuka Taluka and the Gogha Mahal. The work in the taluka was
completed at the end of February 1911 and in the mahal at the close of the field season. The
total area classed in 40 "villages of the Dhandhuka Taluka and in 55 villages of the Gogha
Mahal amounted to 221,861 acres. The field work in connection with the city survey of
Godhra was completed during the year.
2. The Central Division field party and two additional field parties continued to work Central Division,
during the year. The work turned out by these parties during the field season was as
follows (0 47 villagos were completely measured and classed : six villages were partly
measured and one was partly classed ; (2) the measurement of pot hissas was carried on in the
Shrigonda Taluka of the Ahmednagar District, in the Sinnar Taluka of the Nasik District, in
the Pandharpur and Karmala Talukas of the Sholapur District and in the Patan Taluka of the
Satara District; (3) work was done in connection with the city survey of Ahmednagar, the
measurement of the Agra Road and the irrigation projects of the Godavari and Pravara
C a nals. The total area measured by the Central Division field party amounted to 33,020
acres, while that measured by the two additional field parties was 71,099 acres. The classi
fication work of the Central Division field party covered an area of 27,616 acres and that of
the two additional parties an area of 67,646 acres. The office of the Survey Daftardar which
continued working till the end of the calendar year was abolished with effect from 1st January
jqii. The temporary establishments employed on the akarband work prepared the
akarbands of 4 alienated villages and the settlement papers of the Nandurbar Taluka of the
West Khandesh District. The inquiry work in connection with the city surveys of Igatpuri
and Ahmednagar was completed during the year.
3 . The field party in this division consists of six permanent surveyors who were Somheni Division ^
employed as follows :—(1) measurement of warkas and kharif lands at Dewache Gothane in the
Ratnagiri Taluka ; (2) measurement of toddy nallas in the Gadag Taluka ; (3) measurement
work at Kusugal in the Hubli Taluka ; (4) Pardi measurement work in the Ratnagiri District;
(5) demarcation of lands intersected by railways in Dharwar; (6) road measurement work
in Bijapur ; (7) classification work at Huilgol in Dharwar District ; (8) applying water classifi
cation to new rice and bagait lands in the Dharwar District; (9) demarcation of lands to be
set apart for the removal of earth and stone in the Kanara District. The Head Surveyor
assisted by a temporary hand was deputed for the greater part of the year on the special duty
of verifying the maps of the lands included in the old cantonment of Sholapur and the canton
ment of Nagar. During the monsoon the surveyors were distributed as usual among the
District Survey offices to assist in recess work. Temporary establishments were employed in
several districts, and the principal work done by these establishments was (1) copying and
repairing torn survey papers in Belgaum and Dharwar ; (2) preparing lists of survey numbers
receiving water from tanks in Kanara ; (3) demarcation of railway lands in Dharwar ; and
(4) measurement of Pardi lands, etc., in Ratnagiri. The Survey Daftardar’s office with the
help of a temporary establishment carried out the work of calculation of assessment for
the Karwar, Hangal, Kod and Ranebennur Talukas and of preparing akarbands of the
Ranebennur Taluka.
4. There was one survey party in Sind, operating in the Rohri and Mirpur Mathelo Sind.
Talukas of the Sukkur District and in the Dero Mohbat Taluka of the Hyderabad District.
In the former district 17,396 acres were measured and in the latter 6,159, making a total of
2 3>555 acres against 19,015 acres measured by the same party in the previous year. In
addition two surveyors working in the Hyderabad District broke up an area of 5,017 acres into
1,023 survey numbers. One surveyor w 5 .s employed on Hab lands in the Karachi Taluka,
and one was engaged in office work in connection with the records of the Jamrao Survey.
2. Settlements.
1 .—Presidency Proper.
In the Northern Division original settlement reports for the inam villages of Oganaj
(Daskroi) and Kanjur-Vikhroli (Thana) were submitted. No original or revised settlement
was carried out during the year. In the Central Division proposals were submitted for the
settlement of 2 Government and 12 inam villages. Revised rates were introduced in the
hlandurbar Taluka of West Khandesh, and also in one Government and 12 alienated villages.
In the Southern Division revised rates according to the second revision settlement proposals
sanctioned by Government were announced in the Hangal and Kod Talukas, in 4 villages of
Ine Senior Kurundwad State, and in Gaokhadi, a Government village in the Rajapur Taluka
of the Ratnagiri District. Revision settlement proposals for the Parasgad Taluka in the
olgaum District and for the Ranebennur Taluka in the Dharwar District were sanctioned
uri ng the year. Proposals for the Kumta Taluka were submitted. Revision settlement
Proposals for the inam village of Antargangi in the Sindgi Taluka of the Bijapur District
w ere sanctioned.
V.
Chap. II.
ADMINISTRA
TION OF THE
LAND.
2 .—Sind.
No revised irrigational settlements were introduced during the year.