Lok Sabha Question No. 294 (STARRED), answered on 2018-03-15
Subject: Land Reforms
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: S.P. MUDDAHANUMEGOWDA

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## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF LAND RESOURCES

## LOK SABHA

STARRED  QUESTION  NO. 294 TO BE ANSWERED ON 15.03.2018

## Land Reforms

## *  294 SHRI S.P. MUDDAHANUME GOWDA

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT  be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has examined the status of land reforms in different States;
- (b) if so, the details thereol State-wise;
- (c) whether the government has given any directions to implement the land reforms expeditiously;  and
- (d) if so, the details thereof  including the guidelines,  if any, issued by the Government in this
- regard?

## ANSWER

MINISTER FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDRA SrNGH TOMAR)

- (a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## Statement  referred to in reply to Parts (a) to (d) of the Lok Sabha Starred  euestion  No. 294 due for reply on 15.03.2018.

(a) to (d): As per Entry 18 and Entry 45 in the State List 'Land' is a State subject.  power  to enact laws relating to'Land'vests in Legislatures  of States.

Provisions  relating  to 'Land' are also contained  in Article 239AA:  Special  provisions  with respect to Delhi; Article 37lA: Special provision  with respect  to Nagaland;  Article  371G: Special provision  with respect to Mizoram; Fifth Schedule:  Provisions as to Administration and Control  of Scheduled  Areas and Scheduled Tribes;  Sixth Schedule:  provisions  as to Administration  of Tribal Areas in Assam, Meghalaya,  Tripura and Mizoram.

Each State has its own State-specific  Revenue  Laws to deal with'Land'  and its administration.

States have been undertaking (and will continue to undertake)  State-specific  Land Reforms broadly in the following  arenas at the respective wisdom of the respective law makers of the respective States (Legislatures of the States):

- (i) Ceiling on landholdings
- for equitable  distribution of land
- (ii) Distribution of land for agricultural purposes,  residential  purposes, cottage industries  (to landless  / marginal and small farmers I village artisans...)
- from land obtained  from imposition  of ceiling
- from community  land with Gram Sabha
- from land with Government
- (iii) Abolition  of Intermediary between the State and the Tiller (Zamindari  Abolition)
- abolition  of intermediary between the State and the tiller
- tenure  rights to the tiller

with transferable  rights without  transferrable  rights (inheritable) lessee govemment lessee

- (iv) Prevention  of fragmentation of landholdings
- (v) Consolidation of landholdings
- consolidate  fragmented  landholdings

## - provide land for commot  public requirements

## (vi) Tenancy reforms

There is no central database  as may contain information on all the State-specific Revenue Laws and all the State-specific Land Reforms undertaken  to date by all the various States  across the country.

There is immense  diversity  across the individual  States  in the country in respect  of 'land', the (State/s-specific) revenue  laws, the socio-economic milieu in relation to 'land', the relevance / need / appropriateness / desirability of specific land reforms, etc.

A Task force on Land Reforms was constituted  on 22-lO-2012 under the Chairmanship  of Minister of Rural Development  to inter alia prepare a draft National Land Reforms Policy and suggest and recommend  appropriate  dialogue  process  with and appropriate  advisory to States on matters relating  to land reforms. Further action and decision as appropriate on the recommendations  of the Task Force is in process.

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