West Bengal. Six of them have made the amendments in the last three years, and two in 2020 alone, indicating an accelerating trend.
In at least two states, Karnataka and Gujarat, the amendments have led to protests by groups of both landowning and landless farmers, who have demanded that the amendments be withdrawn and allotment of surplus land to the landless be prioritised.
India’s efforts at land reforms have a long history. After Independence, starting in the 1960s, 21 states enacted land reforms laws to address the
historic inequality in land ownership in India. The laws set a limit on how much land an individual or corporation could hold, also known as a land “ceiling” and allowed the government to reapportion surplus land to the landless.
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Rebooting Economy 52: The unfinished agenda of land reforms nobody talks about
Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers well-being be achieved without land reforms?
Prasanna Mohanty | December 14, 2020 | Updated 14:02 IST
It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that India needs land reform urgently to ensure people s well-being and sustainable economic growth
While farmers protest has occupied the political centre stage, India has forgotten the other part of the agricultural workforce: landless agriculture workers who also double-up as tenant farmers and sharecroppers and are officially recognised as poorest of the poor .
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