Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883
4.Purposes for which loans may be granted under this Act.:-
(1) Subject to such
rules as may be made under section 10, loans may be granted under this Act, by
such officer as may from time to time, be empowered in this behalf by the State
Government for the purpose of making any improvement to any person having a
right to make that improvement, or with the consent of that person, to any
other person.
(2)
"Improvement" means any work which adds to the letting value of land,
and includes the following namely:---
(a)
the construction of wells, tanks and other works for the storage, supply or
distribution of water for the purposes of agriculture, or for the use of men
and cattle employed in agriculture;
(b)
the preparation of land for irrigation;
(c)
the drainage, reclamation from rives or other waters, or protection from floods
or from erosion or other damage by water, of land used for agricultural
purposes or wasteland which is cultivable ;
(d)
the reclamation, clearance, enclosure or permanent improvement of land for
agricultural purposes;
(e)
the renewal or reconstruction of any of the foregoing works, or alterations
therein or additions thereto; and
(f)
such other works as the State Government {The words "with the previous
sanction of the G.G.in C." rep.by
Act 8 of 1906, s.2.} may, from time to time, by notification in the Official
Gazette, declare to be improvements for the purposes of this Act.