Your recent proposal in the assembly to give agricultural lands on contract or leave and license by the agricultural land owners, may not be accepted by the agricultural land owners of Goa, as some agricultural land owners had given their land in the past on temporary one year’s tenancy in writing and terminated the same in writing, before the agricultural tenancy Act Vth Amendment 1976, came into existence. This termination is not considered by the Mamlatdars and Deputy Collectors. Even though there are no lease agreements. Appeals are still pending with the Deputy Collectors in such matters.
Mundkarial lands are declared as tenanted lands leaving the other mundkars with 300 sqmts of land, where by creating another land owner in the form of a tenant cum mundkar and a deemed purchaser of the balance land, of a coconut garden.
In order to gain confidence of the land owners, who had given plucking or toddy tapping rights temporarily every year to different mundkars dwelling in the same land, no tenancy should be applicable. No lease agreements were ever made. The so called mundkar who claim tenancy, as well as mundkarial rights just because their name appears in tenants column as well as in the other rights column of I & IV Form without the knowledge and approval of the owner should not be given right of tenancy.
If he was terminated as a tenant by giving a written notice by the land owner before the agricultural tenancy Act V Amendment 1976 came into existence such termination must be considered.
The government must bring an ordinance on mundkarial lands, which will benefit all the mundkars to purchase extra lands equally with the land owners, with a sale deed which will fetch extra revenue for the government and the land owners instead of giving double benefit to a single mundkar to become a mundkar as well as a tenant of the balance land at a throwaway price.
The land owners had developed the coconut gardens with the help of all mundkars and benefit gained by a single mundkar will not be justifying and beneficial. If the above amendments are made in the form of an ordinance, the agricultural land owners as well as all the mundkars will gain confidence and will be benefited. All agricultural land owners will also feel confident if terminations of tenancy are considered before the agricultural tenancy Act V Amendment 1976 came into existence. Please consider this suggestion.
