LAND REFORMS

The basic objective of land reform is to do social justice with the tillers, land owners, landless labourers, and rural community with the set objective to provide security to the cultivators, to fix a rational rent, the conferment of title to the tiller and to increase the agricultural productivity. The entire concept of land reforms aims at the abolition of intermediaries and bringing the actual cultivator in direct contact with the state. The scheme of land reforms includes:

(i) abolition of intermediaries,

(ii) land tenancy reforms, i.e. regulation of rent, security of tenure for tenants, and confirmation of ownership on them,

(iii) ceiling on land holdings and distribution of surplus land to landless labourers and small farmers, (iv) agrarian reorganisation including consolidation of holdings and prevention of subdivision and fragmentation,

(v) organisation of co-operative farms, and

(vi) improvement in the system of land record keeping.