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Thal Project a special assessment in Layyah and Kot Addu Tehsils of
Muzaffargarh District was made by the Government with effect from Kharif
1952 for a period of 10 years vide Punjab Government memo. No. 3848/54-
10 dated July 2, 1954. All areas irrigated by the Thal Canal in the above
mentioned two tehsils of the district were assessed to land revenue and
malikana in the manner indicated below:
(1) All crown waste lands not previously assessed to land revenue at Rs. 2/-
per matured acre on each harvest.
(2) All crown waste lands already assessed to land revenue were required to
continue to pay the assessment but when the same was allotted, the allottee
was required to pay a special malikana equal to the difference.
(3) The proprietary land acquired by the Thal Development Authority and
then re-allotted was treated as (2) above with the only difference that special
malikana of it would go to the TDA and not to the Government.
(4) All such allotted land was required to pay in addition, a general malikana
at Re. 1/- per allotted acre per harvest. The amount of malikana realized in
respect of land acquired by the TDA was to go to its own funds, while the
amount in respect of the crown land was to be credited to the provincial
revenue.
(5) Proprietary land allotted to the old proprietors by the TDA as
compensatory grants being the area left with them by the TDA as a result of
its acquisition proceedings were required to pay the same land revenue as
before even if they received irrigation. These lands were exempted from the
payment of any malikana whether general or special.
In regard to the barani crops raised by the allottee on the crown waste lands
or proprietary lands acquired by the TDA within the irrigation limits of the
Thal Project, the land revenue und malikana were assessed in the following
manner:

Land Revenue Malikana
(a) Land not assessed to Re. 1/- per matured Re. 1/- per allotted acre
land revenue acre per harvest as general
malikana.
(b) land assessed to land Land revenue already Re. 1/- per allotted acre
revenue assessed as general malikana
plus the difference in
assessed land revenue
and Re.1/- per matured
acre on each harvest as
special malikana.
In case the assessed land revenue was more than Rs. 1, the existing land
revenue rate was to be continued.

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