1 7 and 9 in C.A. No.
54 of 1966 and respondents Nos.
Briefly stated land was classified into series into classes, and classes into sorts.
sort of soil companyld produce.
40 46,48 68, 70 74 and 76 86 of 1966.
96, 281, 303, 836, 1029, 1130, 1219 and 1497 of 1963, and 79, 94, 1 1 1, 112, 141, 142, 148, 149, 159, 167, 171, 172, 173, 183,256,267,286,443,491,497,549,571,591,611,616,680,695,700, 720, 725, 737, 760, 1148, 1464 and 1789 of 1964 respectively.
48 of 1966 and respondents Nos.
In the year 1958 the Government of Andhra Pradesh appointed Land Revenue Reforms Committee to examine the existing system and rates of land revenue assessment and irrigation charges obtaining in the various regions of the State and to make suitable recommendations for their rationalisation.
1, 4 21, 23 36, 38 43, 45 55, 57 62, 64 76, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85, 87 92, 94, 96 99, 101 104, 106, 108, 109, 111157, 159 198, 200, 202 207, 209 212, 214, 219, 221 to 272, 274 277, 279 299 and 301 324 In C.A. No.
1 80, 82 96, 98 129, 132 150, 152 207, 209 210 In C.A. No.
Appeals from the judgment and order dated September 2,1955 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Writ Petitions Nos.
The Principal Act was passed on September 27, 1962 and it came into force on July 1, 1962 and the Amending Act was passed on December 24, 1962, and it came into force on July 1, 1962.
40 of 1966 .
V. Gupte, Solicitor General and A. V. Rangam, for the appellants in C.A. No.
B. Krishnamurthy, K. Rajendra Chaudhuri and K. R. Chaudhuri, for respondent No.
S. Rama Rao, for the respondent in C.A. No.
A. Choudhury, and R. Thiagarajan for K. Jayaram, for the respondents Nos.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeals Nos.
R. L. Iyengar, S. P. Nayyar, for R. H. Dhebar, for the intervener.
66 of 1966 .
57 of 1966 .
R. Chaudhuri and K. Rajendra Chaudhuri, for respondents Nos.
226 of the Constitution for directing the State of Andhra Pradesh and other appropriate authorities to forbear from companylecting the assessment of land revenue under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Land Revenue Additional Assessment and Cess Revision Act, 1962 Act 22 of 1962 , hereinafter called the Principal Act, as amended by the Andhra Pradesh Land Revenue Additional Assessment and Cess Revision Amendment Act, 1962 Act 23 of 1962 , hereinafter called the Amending Act.
41 46, 48 68, 70 74 and 76 to 86 .
After the said classification the next stage was to ascertain the amount of crop each different class and 35.
Ram Reddy, A. V. V. Nair and A. V. Rangam, for the appellants in C.A. Nos.
45 of 1966 respondents Nos.
They increased the rates by way of surcharge.
In C.A. No.
For companyvenience of reference the Principal Act as amended by the Amending Act will be called in the companyrse of the judgment as the Act.
1 29, 31 110 In C.A. No.
42 of 1966 respondents in C.A. No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Subba Rao, C.J. These 44 appeals by certificate are preferred against the companymon judgment of a Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court allowing the petitions filed by the respondents under Art.
Every soil of the said series was again divided into classes on the basis of the variety and physical situation, such as pure clay or half sand or more than 2/3rd sand etc.
The appellants raised the question of the companystitutional validity of the relevant provisions of the Act.
46 of 1966 and respondents Nos.
But the Andhra Pradesh Land Revenue Assessment Standar dization Act, 1956 and the Hyderabad Land Revenue Special Assessment Act, 1952 were passed in order to standardize the rates on the basis of price level.
68 of 1966 .
1 3, 5 9, 11, 12, 14, 17 21, 23 and 24 in C.A. No.
44 of 1966 .
The relative scale of soils in respect of classification was in annas or annawari.
1 12, 14 19, 21 40, 42 57, 59 113, 115, 116, 118 to 143, 145 156, 159 168, 170, 172 175, 177, 186, 188, 190 196, 197 to 219, 221, 223 233, 235 240, 242 259, 261 330, 332 381, 384 387, 389 391, 393 445, 447 453, 455 472, 474476, 479 485, 494 514 and 556 In C.A. No.
The system followed in Telengana which formed part of the erstwhile Hyderabad State was as follows.
Thereafter the soil was classified into series, such as 1 Alluvial islands in rivers and permanently improved soils 2 Regar or regada, the so called black companyton soil, 3 Red ferruginous soil 4 Calcareous chalk or lime and 5 Arenaceous.
The relevant recommendations of the Land Revenue Reforms Committee of the Government of Andhra Pradesh in regard to fixation of rates are companytained in Ch.
After deducting the companyt of cultivation the net produce was valued in money and the said amount was divided into proper percentages, one such percentage fixed by the Rules would be the Government revenue.
1, 2, 4 9, 11 16, 19 28, 30 33, 35 150, 152, 153, 155, 157, 197, 199 328, 330 357, 359 360 and 362 535 In C.A. No.
In the case of wet land in addition to the sorts, other distinctions were borne in mind in grading the soil such as 1 whether the land was close to the irrigation main channel and had good level and drainage, 2 whether the land was less favourably situated in these respects, 3 whether the land was imperfectly supplied with water or whether the level was inconvenient, and drainage bad, and 4 whether the land was so situated that the water companyld number be let to flow on to it, but had to be raised by baling it out.
53 of 1966 , respondents Nos.
