Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(I) In the case of a claim relating to the practice of jhum cultivation of Forest Settlement Officer shall record a statement setting forth the particulars of the claim and of any local rule or order under which the practice is allowed or regulated, and submit the Forest Settlement Officer. Bar of accrual of forest rights after proclamation. Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer Powers of Forest Settlement Officer. Treatment of claims relating to practice of jhum cultivation. statement to the [State]1 Government, together with his opinion as to whether the practice should be permitted or prohibited wholly or in part. (2) On receipt of the statement and oprruon the (state]1 Government may make an order permitting or prohibiting the practice wholly or in part. (3) If such practice is permitted wholly or in part, the Forest Settlement Officer may arrange for its exercise- a. by altering the limits of the land under settlement so as to exclude land of sufficient extent of a suitable kind, and in a locality, reasonably convenient for the purposes of the claimants, or b. by causing certain portions of the land under settlement to be separately demarcated, and giving permission to the claimants to practise jhum cultivation therein under such conditions as he may prescribe. All arrangements made under this sub-section shall be subject to the previous sanction of the [State) 1 Government. (4) The practice of Jhum cultivation shall in all cases be deemed to be a privilege subject to control, restriction, and abolition by the [State]' Government, and not to be a right.