Land reform

Land reform is redistribution of lands by the government from landholders to landless people . It is india’s state policy from starting days (after independence ).

land reforms policy objectives ..

1) To remove hindrances to increase in agricultural production. 2)To eliminate all elements of exploitation and social injustice within agrarian structure 3) To provide equal status and opportunity to all sections of rural population.

Categories in land refom

1)Abolition of intermediaries

Basic aim for abolition of intermediaries is to reduce zamindari system . Farmers were in huge loss, all farmers investment gone through the intermediaries.

2) tenancy regulation

Tenancy regulation improve the contractual terms . It provide security to tenure.

3)Encouragement for joint farming

Joint farming can help farmers benefit from economies of scale by lowering their costs of inputs or hiring services for example storage and transport. The agricultural cooperative system enables farmers to improve product and service quality and reduce risks

4)ceiling on landholdings

It is useful to redistributing surplus land to the landless

5)consolidate disperate landholdings

Land consolidation is a planned readjustment and rearrangement of fragmented land parcels and their ownership. It is usually applied to form larger and more rational land holdings. Land consolidation can be used to improve rural infrastructure and to implement developmental and environmental policies

Impact of land reform

Land reforms alter the power structure, both economic and political, since land has always been a source of wealth, income, status and power. It empowers the actual tillers of the soil, and organizes and enables them to seek development benefits from the State.

Land reform status in states ( india)

West Bengal accounts for more than half (54.2%) of India’s land–reformbeneficiaries. As many as 3.14 million of the rural, landless got free land over 60 years. The Draft National Land Reforms Policy has credited West Bengal, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir for having performed best in surplus land distribution.