1. Presentation created By B. Saikrishna& Sunitha

2. The District Collector and Magistrate ofNallavaram Here is an imaginary district of Nallavaram. This district has the following Mandals- Garipalli, Mallepalli, Narasapet, Gurthur. The office of the district magistrate of the Nallavaram is in Nallavaram town. 3. Imaginary Map forImaginary District Nallavaram 4. The district magistrate Manisha Nagle,reaches her office at 10:30 every morning.Manisha NagaleDistrict Magistrate, Nallavaram 5. At 11:30 today there is a meeting of theofficers of all departments in the office. Theheads of all the departments in the office theheads of all the departments have come forthe meeting. 6. The collector asks the head of each departmentabout the progress of the work during the previousmonth. She also asks them about the problemsthey face in the work. The meeting continues tillabout 2 Oclock in the afternoon. 7. After the meeting, Manisha Nagle goes through files. There is astack of files. Each file deals with the activities of differentdepartments. She reads them and writes her comments or orders onthem. It is about 3.00 PM when Manisha Nagle finishes looking atthe files. 8. From 3.00 PM. To 4.30 PM everyday shemeets the people of the district. People fromall the Mandals come to meet her with theirproblems. 9. Some farmers of Mallepali mandal had come to discuss theabsence of irrigation in their village. Their tanks were dryfor two years. This year the crops failed. They wanted toknow if their loans could be waived or get some repairwork on tank bunds. In the neighbouring villages tankbunds were repaired. They wanted such work to be donein their village as well. Mallepalli Mandal 10. Manisha Nagle told them that since their village was not inthe state list of drought affected areas they could not getany loan waiver. bund of the village. 11. Collector suggested that they approach the MLAand present their problems. She promised toinstruct the irrigation department to attend to thetank bund of the village 12. At 5.00 A.M on he nextday morning, collector received aphone call from a town in Narasapet Mandal. The cottonstored at the ginning mill there caught fire in the night.People were trying to put out the fire. The fire service hadalready reached the area. 13. It was necessary to ensure that fire did not spreadto neighboring areas. Nagle immediately left forNarasapet Mandal. She rang up the Superintendentof Police and the civil surgeon and asked them tocome along. 14. The Collector reached Narasapet ataround 7.00 AM and went straight tothe cotton ginning mill. A lot of thecotton had been destroyed but thefire was not under control. 15. The Municipal Chairperson and the police officerswere also there. The Collector asked them about theextent of damage. The Chairperson told her that twolaborers in the mill had suffered from server burnsand had been admitted to hospital. A few housesnearby had also been burnt down. 16. Nagle announced a compensation of ten thousandrupees each to the owner of the houses, which wereburnt and promised to inquire into the causes of fire.The Collector then visited the injured labourers atthe hospital. She also announced a relief payment oftwenty thousand rupees each to the two labourers.10, 000 Rs to the Owners of the Burnt Houses 17. Please See Collector Roles and Responsibilities PDF file for additional information 18. Please see two files giving the List of Districts and Mandals in Andhrapradesh PDF File foradditional information 19. Among others, the RevenueOfficer keeps the land records.If you live in a village or ownland, you may know that yourparents have some record forthe land that is owned by them.All the land all over the countryismeasuredand thisinformation is kept in theseofficers. They also have mas ofthe land showing land ownedby different people, showingcrops, tanks, drainages, wells,neighboring plots,roads,hillocks, and so on. 20. These documents becomeextremely useful. If there is adispute two individuals,maps and written documentscan be used for settling it.Or, if someone buys or sellsthe land this informationneeds to be written in theseoffices as well. These mapsalso have records of the forestor open uncultivated grazinglands.Soifsomeoneencroaches into these lands.So if someone encroachesinto these lands, they canevicted. 21. RecordsIt is theresponsibility of thevillage RevenueOfficer and MandalRevenue Officers tokeep track of theserecords of the land.They also have theresponsibility forupdating and issuing Updatedration cards. 22. How Laws are Implemented To understand this, first weneed to understand an actual law. Inthe previous chapters we have readabout the significance of groundwater, how it has historically beenimportant inouragriculturedevelopment etc. we also haveperennial rivers and forest areas. Yettoday we find in many parts ofAndhra Pradesh that bore wells aredug up to 1,500 feet or more. In thelong run it may not be viable to havesuch system of irrigation, or drinkingwater.Please See Laws of India PDF FileList of Laws in India PDF FileIPC 1860 PDF FileFor Additional Information 23. Andhra Pradesh Water, Land and Trees Protection Act, 2002It is important to protectthese resources for the benefitand survival of the nextgenerations. Inthisconnection, the Government of Please see the Andhra PradeshAndhra Pradesh enacted theWater, Land and TreesProtection Act, 2002Andhra Pradesh Water, LandPDF File for additionalinformationand Trees Protection Act in2002. It is being implementedform 19-04-2002. Some of thefeatures of this law are. 24. 1. Permission from Mandal Revenue Officer is essential to drill/ big new well.2. Specific depth and distance should be maintained between the wells to avoid unnecessary completion.3. Steps to prevent wastage of rain water.4. Industrial units have waste water treatment plants.5. Protection of Drinking water.6. In the regions affected by ground water depletion sand quarrying from riverbeds is prohibited.7. Social forestry to be taken up on large scale.8. Cutting trees without permission is prohibited. When a tree is cut, two saplings should be planted. 25. Andhra Pradesh Water, Land and Trees MAP 26. After the law was passed, government formed anauthority to implement that act. It was called theWater, Land and Trees protection Authority orWalta. If you look carefully, in order to implementa law like this it is necessary that differentdepartment so the government work together. Youcan note that forest department has to be takeninto account. Because forests are important forsaving water and government department in chargeof industry to ensure that the factories are notpolluting water. 27. So we can build a table such as the following to show hoedifferent persons in the government could be responsible forimplementing the law: Department SubjectGround Water Department Registration of Rigs, SandMining, classification ofGround water basins, etc.Municipal administration &Construction of Rain-waterUrban Development harvesting structures, treeDepartmentplanting, permission forconstruction of newbuildings.Mines and Geology Monitoring Sand Mining inDepartmentwater bodiesForest Department Granting permission forfelling trees 28. Now if this law is properly implemented what will it means?Considering the following possibilities, can you identify whichdepartments will be responsible if their activities are to be evaluated it is possible that there are more than one department which looksat them:Satyavathi is a farmer wants to big a new borewell, and there isanother borewell in her neighbouring land. What rules will she haveto follow?Padmanabham wants to build a new house and is thinking ofcollecting sand from the river bed near the house.Apparao is contractor who wants to start a stone quarry near theforest. 29. Thus, in a democratic country like oursthere are different role played by electedrepresentatives and appointedgovernment officials. In many waysthese are different from the way kingsand priests dictated different aspect ofour lives. That is not to say that alldifferent forms of marginalization,disparities and discrimination have goneaway from the society. But we can worktowards achieving them.