Which one of the following is not a land-use category?

In India, land-use records are maintained by the Land Revenue Department, which follows a standard nine-fold classification system [3]. According to these records, the official categories include 'Forests', where land is demarcated by the government for forest growth [4]. Other recognized categories are 'Barren and Wastelands', which include hilly terrains and deserts that cannot be easily cultivated, and 'Area under Permanent Pastures and Grazing Lands', which are often managed as common property resources [4]. The classification also accounts for land put to non-agricultural uses, miscellaneous tree crops, culturable wasteland, fallow lands, and net sown area [4]. 'Marginal land' is not a recognized category in this official nine-fold land-use classification system [4]. While the term 'marginal' may be used in economic or agricultural contexts to describe land with low productivity, it does not constitute a formal administrative land-use category in the revenue records.

Sources

1. [1] INDIA PEOPLE AND ECONOMY, TEXTBOOK IN GEOGRAPHY FOR CLASS XII (NCERT 2025 ed.) > Chapter 3: Land Resources and Agriculture > Land Use Categories > p. 21
2. [3] https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/legy203.pdf
3. [4] https://sathee.iitk.ac.in/ncert-books/class-12/geography/india-people-and-economy/chapter-03-land-resources-and-agriculture/
4. [2] INDIA PEOPLE AND ECONOMY, TEXTBOOK IN GEOGRAPHY FOR CLASS XII (NCERT 2025 ed.) > Chapter 3: Land Resources and Agriculture > Land Use Categories > p. 22