Asami
असामीUttarakhand land records glossary · Land Types & Tenure
What is Asami?
The weakest tenure - a tenant of gaon sabha or of special-category land.
An asami is a non-hereditary tenant, usually of village-community land (like pasture temporarily let for cultivation). Asami rights are limited and can be ended; asami land cannot be sold.
Related terms
More in Land Types & Tenure
- Sirdar - A historical tenure below bhumidhar - could farm but not sell; mostly upgraded now.
- ZA & LR Act - The 1950 law that abolished landlords and created today's tenure system.
- Section 143 (Land-use change) - The process that converts farm land into 'abadi' so it can be used for housing.
- Section 154 (Purchase limits) - The rule limiting how much agricultural land a non-farmer/outsider can buy.
- Abadi - Village residential land - the settled, built-up part of a village.
- Banjar - Uncultivated / barren land in the records.
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