Section 24. Power of State Government to reduce rate of special assessment.

The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, reduce the rate of special assessment specified in 1[Schedule B] in respect of land in which any of the commercial crops are raised; and may, by like notification, omit or amend any entry, but not so as to enhance the rate of special assessment in any case, and thereupon 2[Schedule B] shall be deemed to have been amended accordingly. 3[The State Government may by like notification reduce the rate of further special assessment specified in section 6B in respect of land in which any irrigated crop is raised, and thereupon, section 6B shall, in relation to such irrigated crop, be deemed to have been amended accordingly.]