Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Grant of land to backward class persons and landless persons.— (1) Building sites (of such size as the Government may by order from time to time determine) may, on receipt of an application made in that behalf, be granted by the Collector to persons belonging to backward classes and landless persons for whom special schemes for their resettlement are undertaken by Government, without auction in occupancy rights, under section 21. (2) Such grant may made on inalienable and impartible tenure free of occupancy price, if the occupancy price of the building site does not exceed ♣[Rs.2000] and with the sanction of the Government, in other cases: ∗[Provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in this rule or in the order of grant or in any agreement, the Collector may grant permission to the allottee to mortgage, sell or transfer the allotted land in consideration of any loan which the allottee may obtain for the purpose of construction of a house on the land allotted or for carrying out repairs or improvements of the house on the plot allotted, from the Government or any financial institution or such other institution as may be approved by the Government.]