Office Memorandum No. 1650/2008/ED of the Education Department, Government of West Bengal dated 1st August, 2008 on the cultivation of land as a sharecropper [C16-N58]
As at 6 September 2026. In force. No commencement recorded.
No. 1650/2008/ED
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
Education Department, Government of West Bengal
Kolkata, dated the 1st August, 2008
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: The cultivation of land as a sharecropper by sharecroppers under the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1954, regarding.
1. The undersigned is directed to say that references have been received in the Education 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 Estates Acquisition Act, 1954.
2. The matter has been examined. Every sharecropper carrying on the cultivation of land as a sharecropper shall make an application in Form 12 to the Collector within one hundred and twenty days, accompanied by a fee of two thousand 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 Collector shall dispose of it within one hundred and twenty days of its receipt.
4. Difficulties, if any, in the implementation of this office memorandum may be brought to the notice of the Education Department, Government of West Bengal.
(Secretary to Government)
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