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to obtain large tracts of such waste land without unduly injuring 

 the interests and sentimental susceptibilities of the landholders, 

 it is the course to be recommended before all others. On the 

 other hand, by taking the lease of such land Government could 

 obtain absolute control of larger areas without incurring the large 

 initial expenditure necessary for acquisition and without depriving 

 landholders of their proprietary rights to which they attach so 

 much importance. 



19. Reclamation by co-operation between Government and 

 the landholders as is being done in the Etawah district and as His 

 Honour the Lieutenant- Governor has suggested to the durbaris 

 of the Jhansi division. Under this method Government recog- 

 nizing the inability of the majority of landholders to find the 

 necessary funds for the works of reclamation, would be prepared 

 to incur all the necessary expenditure and to reimburse itself from 

 the first profits obtained from the reclaimed area, while after the 

 capital expenditure incurred had been paid off, all further profits 

 would be paid over to the landholders themselves. At first sight 

 this may appear to be a sooiewhat one-sided arrangement, in that 

 Government takes all the risk of the scheme proving a financial 

 failure, while, if it is a success, the landholder receives all the 

 profits. But it must be remembered that, whether the scheme is 

 a financial success or not, Government reaps the indirect advan- 

 tages already referred to. Under this method of management the 

 landholders voluntarily put their lands under the control of a 

 Government department. 



20. The writers are agreed that the scheme outlined by His 

 Honour the Lieutenant-Governor at Jhansi is that which present 

 the greatest advantages to the zamindars, but, in view of their 

 enquiries in the districts, it would not appear that any considerable 

 number of landholders at present realize these advantages suffi- 

 ciently to induce them to make application under section 38 of the 

 Forest Act, and they think it will be difficult to form divisions of 

 manageable size from the lands of those willing to do so. 



21. A scheme has been proposed for the reclamation of ravine 

 tracts in the Etawah and Agra districts which combines the four 

 methods outlined above for, under the management of the Etawah 

 division, it is proposed to include (a) a small piece of land bought 

 outright by Government, (b) the remainder of the Fisher forest 

 which is held by Government under a lease, (c) the ravine tracts 

 of landholders who have applied to Government for help under 

 section 38 of the Forest Act, in which Government is to incur all 

 the expenditure, and (d) the Bhadawar Estate in the Agra district, 

 in which the estate proposes to find the money. 



