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Dantuluri Ram Raju and ors. Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1972SC828; (1972)1SCC421; [1972]2SCR900

..... according to section 13, the provisions of the andhra pradesh irrigation (levy of betterment contribution and advance betterment contribution) act, 1955 in so far as they relate to drainage work, shall not apply to any drainage scheme under the act. ..... under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the act :'in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the andhra pradesh (krishna and godavari delta area) drainage cess act, 1968 (andhra pradesh act 11 of 1968), the governor of andhra pradesh hereby specifies in column (3) of the table below in respect of the division mentioned in column (2) thereof, the rate of tax per acre per annum that shall be levied and collected by the government for the first year commencing on the 20th december, 1968 (date of commencement of the act) as drainage cess on every land ..... in the delta area comprised within the said division :-table sl. .....

State of Tamil Nadu Vs. State of Kerala and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... 2003 act was enacted to consolidate and amend the laws relating to construction of irrigation works, conservation and distribution of water for the purpose of irrigation and levy of betterment, contribution and water cess on lands benefited by irrigation works in the state of kerala and to provide for involvement of farmers in water utilisation system and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. ..... , operate, maintain and regulate the waters of the new dam, an independent committee / board, to be chaired by a representative of the union of india, with representatives of the sok and the sotn as its members, is put in place; 2(c) that the terms of rent/levies etc payable by the sotn to the sok are settled and the power generation rights of the two states are settled beforehand; 2(d) that before construction of the new dam and till its commissioning, the existing dam will be strengthened by the measures suggested by the cwc, including dam safety ..... this led to the filing of number of writ petitions in the kerala high court as well as in the madras high court sometime in 1998 on the issue for and against raising of water level in the mullaperiyar reservoir and the safety of the dam. ..... state of uttar pradesh; [(1955) 1 scr415: air1954sc447 [7].363. .....

Mohd. Hanif Quareshi and ors. Vs. the State of Bihar

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1958SC731; [1959]1SCR629

..... 58 of 1956, 83 of 1956 and 84 of 1956 challenge the validity of the bihar preservation and improvement of animals act, 1955 (bihar ii of 1956), hereinafter referred to as the bihar act. ..... on the contrary, it hurts the best interests of the nation in that the useless cattle deprive the useful ones of a good part of the cattle food, deteriorate the breed and eventually affect the production of milk and breeding bulls and working bullocks, besides involving an enormous expense which could be better utilised for more national needs. 55. ..... 63,00,00,000 per year as the contribution of the dung of these animals to the national income. ..... if, however, account is taken of the other purposes for which bullocks may be used, namely, for carting or as pack animals or for working oil crushers or drawing water from the wells for irrigation purposes, the total available animal power will fall short of the requirements. ..... in the state of madras v. v. g. ..... under section 7 the state government may levy such charges or fees, as may be prescribed for keeping uneconomic cows in the institutions. ..... as this court has said in the state of madras v. .....

The Hingir-rampur Coal Co. Ltd. and ors. Vs. the State of Orissa and o ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1961SC459; [1961]2SCR537

..... the learned judge examined the scheme of the act and observed that 'the material fact which negatives the theory of fees in the present case is that the money raised by the levy of the contribution is not earmarked or specified for defraying the expense the government has to incur in performing the services. ..... amenities, like communications, water-supply and electricity for the better development of any area in the state wherein any mine is situated or to provide for the welfare of residents or workers in any such area within which persons employed in a mine or a group of mines reside or work, to constitute such an area to be a mining area of the purposes of the act, to define the limits of the area, to include within such area any local area contiguous to the same and defined in the notification and to exclude from such area any ..... in that case the question was whether the tax authorised by the madras general sales tax act, 1939, was a tax on the sale of goods or was a duty of excise, and the privy council held it was the former and not the latter. ..... in pursuance of the rule-making power conferred on it by the impugned act respondent 1 has purported to make rules called the orissa mining areas development act rules, 1955; these rules have been duly notified in the state gazette on january 25, 1955. 4. .....

The State of West Bengal Vs. Kesoram Industries Ltd. and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (2004)187CTR(SC)219; [2004]266ITR721(SC); JT2004(1)SC375; 2004(1)SCALE425; (2004)10SCC201

..... tea, it is also not concerned with the productivequalities of the land and(c) the levy is not based on the land as a unit.it must be noticed that the definition of coal bearing land or the teaestate and/or tea is the same in both the state acts and the central acts.the impugned levy is entirely dependent upon the production of mineralextracted or production of tea leaves which vary from mine to mine orgarden to garden or location to location and from year to year.in the case of coal, the levy varies with the production of mineralwithout any bearing on the surface land as ..... is taken to be a unit and green tea leaves are takenas the measure of tax on land comprising the tea estate, as contended, thelevy of cess can never be uniform and will have no nexus with the land asthe land used for factory, workshop and the houses for persons employed inthe tea estate have no contribution to the production of tea leaves whichhave nexus only with the land where tea plants are grown and which producegreen ..... easementbecomes absolute and indefeasible.a person who holds land for agricultural purpose may, therefore,subject to any reasonable restriction that may be made by the state mayhave the right to use water for irrigational purposes and for the saidpurpose he may also excavate a tank, but under no circumstances, he can bepermitted to restrict flow of water to the neighbouring lands or dischargethe effluents in such a manner so as to affect the right of his neighbourto use water for his own .....

W.B. Housing Board and ors. Vs. Brijendra Prasad Gupta and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : JT1997(6)SC169; 1997(4)SCALE590; (1997)6SCC207

..... sections 3 and 4 of the act read as under:power to requisition : (1) if the state government is of the opinion that it is necessary so to do for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community (or for increasing employment opportunities for the people by establishing commercial estates and industrial estates in different areas) or for providing proper facilities for transport, communication, irrigation or drainage, or for the creation of better living conditions in rural or urban areas, not being an industrial or other areas excluded by the state government by a notification in this behalf, by the construction or reconstruction ..... under sections of the west bengal land reforms act, 1955, the act overrides other laws if there is anything inconsistent with what is stated in the act. ..... the only, financial contribution of the government through housing board is to the acquisition of equity shares of the joint sector company to the extent of rs. ..... bhanji munji : [1955]1scr777 which was a case under the bombay land requisition act, 1948, the court observed that it was not necessary that the order of requisition must explicitly set out the public purpose for which it was made and that the only requirement of the law was that the requisitioning must be made for a public purpose and that so long as there was a public purpose for which an order of requisition was made, it would be valid,irrespective of whether such .....

Narmada Bachao Andolan Vs. Union of India and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2000SC3751; (2001)1GLR434; 2000(7)SCALE34; (2000)10SCC664; [2000]Supp4SCR94

..... of fodder, seeds cultivation training, initial help in land preparation for agricultural activities, better seeds and fertilizers, access to finance, special programme for women in the traditional skills entrepreneurship development, employment skill formation, different plantation programmes, special emphasis for pasture management, environment awareness and education programme, programmes for bio-gas/smokeless chulhas, safe drinking water supply, electricity, lift irrigation, fertilizers kit distribution, gypsum treatment of soil etc.159. ..... it was held that the notification of the central government dated 16th october, 1969 referring the matters raised by the state of rajasthan by its complaint was ultra vires of the act but constitution of the tribunal and making a reference of the water dispute regarding the inter-state river narmada was not ultra vires of the act and the tribunal had jurisdiction to decide the dispute referred to it at the instance of state of gujarat. ..... on the other hand, the hydel power's contribution in the greenhouse effect is negligible and it can be termed ecology friendly. ..... the central water & power commission carried out a study of the hydroelectric potential of the narmada basin in the year 1955. .....

West Bengal Housing Board Vs. Brijendra Prasad Gupta and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1997SC2745; [1997]Supp2SCR22; 1997(2)LC378(SC)

..... and services essential to the life of the community, increasing employment opportunities for the people by establishing commercial estates and industrial estates in different areas, providing proper facilities for transport, communication, irrigation or drainage and creating better living conditions in urban or rural areas by the construction or reconstruction of dwelling places in such areas or for purposes connected therewith and incidental thereto; with reference to the object with which the act was enacted we may now refer to the order under section 3 (1) of the act requisitioning the land. ..... under section 3 of the west bengal land reforms act, 1955, the act overrides other laws if there is anything inconsistent with what is stated in the act. ..... the only financial contribution of the government through housing board is to the acquisition of the equity shares of the joint sector company to the extent of rs. ..... bhanji munji : [1955]1scr777 which was a case under the bombay land requisition act, 1948, the court observed that it was not necessary that the order of requisition must explicitly set out the public purpose for which it was made and that the only requirement of the law was that the requisitioning must be made for a public purpose and that so long as there was a public purpose for which an order of requisition was made, it would be valid, irrespective of whether such .....

The State of Karnataka by Its Chief Secretary Vs. State of Tamil Nadu ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... it alleged that the efforts made by the state of mysore to utilize the waters of this river for the purposes of irrigation were continually frustrated by the protests of the british government of madras and though the state of mysore was the upper riparian state and contributed the highest flow to the river, yet it was not permitted to exercise its powers to utilize the waters for irrigation due to the remonstrances of the lower riparian province of madras. ..... - what is contended on behalf of the petitioners is that the pharmacy act was extended to the state of bihar had notified and adopted the education regulations issued under section 10 of the act which was in part ii of the act, that both the act and the education regulations hence constitute law 154 the pharmacy act and for the purpose of the state of jharkhand carved out of the modification of either the education regulations or the pharmacy act by the competent legislature, namely, the parliament, that no such attempt was also made by the state of legislature and in the jharkhand and unless ..... though the assessors had advised otherwise, yet the tribunal was of the view that instead of keeping of water for the purpose of carry over storage, it would be better to allocate the same amongst the parties keeping in view the principle of equity for use by the concerned states for any beneficial purpose according to the individual state s own priority. .....

Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association and Anr. Vs. Union of In ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... the issue under reference arose on account of the fact, that learned counsel for the petitioners had placed reliance on the judgment of this court, in the madras bar association case35, wherein this court had examined the provisions of the national tax tribunal act, 2005, and whilst doing so, had held the provisions of the above legislative enactment as ultra vires the provisions of the constitution, on account of their being violative of the basic structure of ..... decisive say in appointing judges; doctrine of separation of powers under the constitution required primacy of judiciary in appointing judges; since traits of candidates could be better assessed by the chief justice, the view of the chief justice as to suitability and merit of the candidate had higher weight; the chief justice of india was not to make a recommendation individually but as representing the judiciary in the manner laid down, that is, after consulting the collegium; and primacy of judiciary in appointment of judges ..... even assuming that the two eminent persons nominated are absolute political neutrals, but are strangers to the judicial system, they would not be able to make any meaningful contribution to the selection process, as they would have no resources to collect appropriate data relevant for the decision making process; (iii) the possibility of two eminent persons vetoing the candidature of a person approved unanimously by the three judicial members of the njac itself is destructive of the basic structure .....