FORM NO. 2 (See rule 8)

Application for Grant of Licence for Opium Poppy Cultivation for
Production of Opium of Poppy Straw
Crop year.........................

1. Name of the Cultivator..........................................................................
2. Father’s Name:..............................................................................................
3. Village..................................................Tehsil.................................District...............................
4. Khasra No. of the plot of land in which poppy is to be cultivated...................................
5. Whether the plot is in the name of the applicant as per revenue records. If not, in whose name?........................................................................................................
6. Whether the plot specified in column 4 has irrigation facilities (kind of irrigation facilities available, i.e,...............................................................
7. Area required for opium poppy cultivation................................................
8. Whether the applicant cultivated the poppy in ................................................ the past, if so, the latest year in which he.......................................................................... cultivated poppy.
9. Whether the applicant was ever proscribed from poppy cultivation or was de-licensed for tendering adulterated opium, excess cultivation, violations of Departmental instructions. If so, the year and the reasons for proscription......................
I hereby certify that the particulars shown above are correct and the land in which opium poppy is to be cultivated is free from litigation.
Attestation Signature/Thumb-impression
(To be made by Lambardar) of cultivator
(To be completed by the Sub-Inspector Incharge)
A. Performance of the cultivator during the preceding crop year.
Crop year.........................................Area licensed....................................
Area measured........................................Area harvested.............................................................
Average yield at 70oC................................. ..............................................
B. Whether the cultivator has ever been proscribed on account of excess cultivation and violation of Departmental instructions, etc. if so the particulars thereof.
Signature......................
(Sub-Inspector Incharge).
The particulars above recorded by the Sub-Inspector have been verified by me. The cultivator is eligible/ineligible for grant of a licence.
Signature (Sub-Inspector Incharge)
Area allotted by the District Opium Officer.
Signature of District Opium Officer.
Conditions of licence
1. The licensee shall not transfer this licence and cultivate poppy only for production of opium or poppy straw over the area of land and the plot(s) specified in the licence.
2. The land in which poppy will be cultivated by the cultivator shall be free from litigation.
3. The licensee shall get his daily collections of opium obtained from the crop weighed by the Lambardar and affix his signature/thumb-impressions against each entry made by the Lambardar in token of correctness of such entry made by the Lambardar and shall submit to preliminary weighments carried out by the staff of the Narcotics Department in the village during which he shall produce the entire quantity collected by him.
4. The licensee shall bring to, and deliver at the place fixed and notified for weighments all opium collected by him from the crop and shall accept for opium so brought by him the price fixed by the Central Government for that crop year.
5. The licensee shall deliver the opium either himself or through any person authorised by him at the time of its weighment and his opium shall be weighed under the supervision of the District Opium Officer or any other officer authorised in this behalf by the Narcotics Commissioner in accordance with rule 14 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Rules, 1985.
6. If the licensee does not surrender his entire produce of opium to Government or retains, embezzles or otherwise illegally disposes of any part of the same he shall be liable to be prosecuted as per the provisions of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
7. The licensee shall extract as much opium as is reasonably possible from all implements, pots and cloth used by him in collecting opium and impregnated with opium in consequence of such use.
8. The final payment for opium delivered by the licensee shall be made to him at appropriate time fixed by the District Opium Officer or any other officer authorised in this behalf.
9. If on the final adjustment of accounts any sum is found due from the licensee, he shall pay it to the District Opium Officer or any other officer authorised in this behalf in the manner specified. If the licensee fails to pay the sum due from him it may be recovered from him in the manner prescribed by section. 72 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
10. The licence may be withheld or cancelled at any time if any fact is revealed against the licensee which makes him ineligible for grant of the licence.
11. The licensee shall comply with the provisions of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, the Rules framed thereunder and any order issued by the competent authorities of the Narcotics Department from time to time.
12. The licensee shall be punishable under the relevant provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 for any breach of the conditions of the licence.