Office Memorandum No. 1398/2012/GAD of the General Administration Department, Government of West Bengal dated 7th September, 2012 on the cultivation of land as a sharecropper [C13-517]
As at 7 September 2026. In force. No commencement recorded.
No. 1398/2012/GAD
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
General Administration Department, Government of West Bengal
Kolkata, dated the 7th September, 2012
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: The cultivation of land as a sharecropper by sharecroppers under the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, regarding.
1. The undersigned is directed to say that references have been received in the General Administration Department, Government of West Bengal on the manner in which the cultivation of land as a sharecropper by sharecroppers is to be regulated under the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955.
2. The matter has been examined. Every sharecropper carrying on the cultivation of land as a sharecropper shall make an application in Form 2 to the Land Tribunal within fifteen days, accompanied by a fee of five hundred rupees.
3. It is, accordingly, clarified that a separate application shall be made in respect of each place at which the cultivation of land as a sharecropper is undertaken, and the Land Tribunal shall dispose of it within fifteen days of its receipt.
4. Difficulties, if any, in the implementation of this office memorandum may be brought to the notice of the General Administration Department, Government of West Bengal.
(Secretary to Government)
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