This reference has been made by a D. B. of this Board in a case relating to the allotment of some land included in the village Charagah to an allottee in exchange for an equal area of land allotted to him from a certain Khasra No. as the land originally allotted was not considered fit for cultivation by the allottee. It was the contention of the appellants that the Collector had violated the provisions of sec. 101 of the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act read with the Rules framed thereunder in allotting the land out of the village pasture land. It was urged that the Collector had no jurisdiction to allot the pasture land entrusted to the Panchayat.

In this connection, reliance was placed on the rule laid down in Nanuram vs. State of Rajasthan (1961 RRD 51). This case relates to village Barada which has a plot No. 9 measuring 204 bighas. The village was settled in the Smt. year 2008 and the entire area of this plot was entered in the settlement record as Charnot Mehfooz. At that time the village was in the Jagir and it appears that the Jagir-ars raised no objection thereto. Subsequently, however, he issued Pattas in respect of a portion of this field, measuring 74 bighas, in the names of h

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