GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

CIRCLE INSPECTORS

In order to exercise proper supervision over the village officers and village servants and to make various enquiries, the tahsildar is assisted by the circle inspectors (in the grade of a clerk) who have about 40 to 50 villages in their charge.  They form a link between the tahsildar and the village servants.  Their duties are as under:—

1.  Inspection on the spot of—

(1) village crops, area and annewari,

(2) boundaries and boundary marks,

(3) all fallow lands deserving one year's remissions,

(4) all grazing lands,

(5) all government and public lands and encroachments
thereon,

(6) irrigation sources under the control of Revenue and Forest Departments,

(7) tagai works.

2.  Preparation of statements for damaged crops.

3.  Preliminary auction in respect of auctionable items, such as fruits, trees, fish in tanks, tank-bed, lands, etc.

4.  Sub-division of lands and demarcation of lands on request.

5.  Helping village officers in the collection of land revenue and the arrears.

6.  Maintenance of record of rights and inspection of mutation entries at least once a month in each village and certification of mutation entries.

7.  General guidance to and supervision of work of the village officers in his circle.

8.  Preparation of agricultural statistics and other returns cattle census, water-supply, etc.

9.  Supervision over the village officers in the preparation and maintenance of the record of rights, the mutation register and tenancy register.

10.  Such other miscellaneous work as the tahsildar may from time to time entrust to them, e.g., enquiries into miscellaneous applications from the public.