REVENUE VILLAGE

Dec. 31, 2018

Tinkonia village, near Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, has been declared as a revenue village by the U.P. government, opening the doors of development to it.

About:

In the rural areas the smallest area of habitation, viz., the village generally follows the limits of a revenue village that is recognised by the normal district administration.
The revenue village need not necessarily be a single agglomeration of the habitations. It may have one or more hamlets.
But the revenue village has a definite surveyed boundary and each village is a separate administrative unit with separate village accounts. The entire revenue village is one unit.
There may be un-surveyed villages within forests etc., where the locally recognised boundaries of each habitation area are followed within the larger unit of say the forest range officer’s jurisdiction.

Recent decision:

As Tinkonia village fell under the Forest Department, its residents were deprived of basic govt. schemes and facilities like BPL cards, healthcare, education, electricity connections etc.

After being declared a revenue village by U.P. Government, it has been electrified and ration cards have been issued to its residents.

Source : The Hindu