Office Memorandum No. 738/2025/FACSD of the Food and Civil Supplies Department, Government of Puducherry dated 27th October, 2025 on the cultivation of land as a sharecropper [C16-9GR]
As at 6 September 2026. In force. No commencement recorded.
No. 738/2025/FACSD
GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
Food and Civil Supplies Department, Government of Puducherry
Puducherry, dated the 27th October, 2025
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: The cultivation of land as a sharecropper by sharecroppers under the Puducherry Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling on Land) Act, 1973, regarding.
1. The undersigned is directed to say that references have been received in the Food and Civil Supplies Department, Government of Puducherry on the manner in which the cultivation of land as a sharecropper by sharecroppers is to be regulated under the Puducherry Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling on Land) Act, 1973.
2. The matter has been examined. Every sharecropper carrying on the cultivation of land as a sharecropper shall make an application in Form 7 to the Board of Revenue within ninety days, accompanied by a fee of two 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 Board of Revenue shall dispose of it within ninety days of its receipt.
4. Difficulties, if any, in the implementation of this office memorandum may be brought to the notice of the Food and Civil Supplies Department, Government of Puducherry.
(Secretary to Government)
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