ANNEX-22

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
REFUGEE RELIEF & REHABILITATION DEPARTMENT
Section-A(I) : Branch GE

To
The (1) The District Magistrate.
(2) The District Land & Land Reforms Officer,
North 24-parganas, P.O. Barasat

Sub: Inter-departmental transfer of land

It has been noticed by the Land and Land Reforms Department for sometime past that different departments are making direct transfer of land to undertakings under their administrative control, or other departments or other bodies sometimes at a premium agreed to beween themselves, and somethimes free of cost.

This practice is not only irregularly but also ab initio void. All the government land belongs to the L. & L. R. Deptt. The department to which such land has been transferred is the permissive pormtissive possessor only for the specific purpose for which it sought the land for its own use. No department has any right to transfer, lease out, or settle in any way such land with any other department, corporation, local body. undertaking even though it be under its administrative control. Even, its own use of the land for a purpose other than the purpose for which the land was transferred to the department is not permissible without the prior approval of the Land and Land Reforms Department.

If any department seeks to transfer land on the ground that it no longer requires it as a result of abandonment of a project, or for any with other reason, the procedure is that such department should relinquish the land in favour of the L. & L. R. Deptt, and the L&LR. Deptt. will then settle the land with the intended transfaree on such terms and conditions as prescribed in the Rules.

He is. therefore, requested to strictly adhere to the norms and procedures in all cases of transfer of land by one department to another, and any departure therefrom should be immediately brought to the notice of the land and Land Deptt.