Odisha to offer land to those with less than four decimals under Vasundhara scheme: State revenue minister
3 months ago

Odisha to offer land to those with less than four decimals under Vasundhara scheme: State revenue minister

New Indian Express  

SAMBALPUR: Revenue and Disaster Management minister Suresh Pujari on Saturday said people with less than four decimal land will also be considered landless after the amendment of Odisha Land Settlement Act and provided land under the Vasundhara scheme. The minister said the amendment has been proposed in section 2 of Odisha Land Settlement Act. Those with less than four decimal land will be considered landless and will be given land after they surrender their plots to the government. Briefing mediapersons, the minister said he reviewed paddy procurement issues including problems faced by farmers, disbursal of input subsidy of `800 and development of infrastructure at the market yards.

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Odisha proposes change in definition of homesteadless
3 months ago

Odisha proposes change in definition of homesteadless

The Hindu  

The Odisha government has proposed a significant revision to the definition of “homesteadless.” Under the new proposal, individuals will be considered homesteadless if they own less than one-twenty-fifth of an acre of homestead land. The Mohan Majhi Government has come out with a draft of the Odisha Government Land Settlement Rules, 2024, proposing to change the definition of homesteadless. The …

Odisha Minister Pujari mulls special fund for tribals to monetise land
3 months, 1 week ago

Odisha Minister Pujari mulls special fund for tribals to monetise land

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: Revenue and Disaster Management minister Suresh Pujari has floated the idea of setting up a revolving fund to address the financial needs of tribals at the time of exigencies in exchange of their land assets. Sharing his thought with members of the assembly, Purjari suggested that the proposed revolving fund would give an opportunity to tribals to monetise land …

Odisha moves to strictly weigh land requirement before acquisition
4 months, 1 week ago

Odisha moves to strictly weigh land requirement before acquisition

The Hindu  

The Odisha government is all set to strictly weigh requirement of land for different projects before giving administrative approval for their acquisition. After observing that the quantum of the land required for different projects were more than the actual requirement, the Revenue and Disaster Management department, which regulates land issues in the State, asked all departmental heads to apply due …

Propaganda on land titling is one of many conspiracies hatched by NDA allies, says Jagan
10 months, 1 week ago

Propaganda on land titling is one of many conspiracies hatched by NDA allies, says Jagan

The Hindu  

Jagan Mohan Reddy has asserted that the Andhra Pradesh Land Titling Act is intended to bestow an unassailable right of ownership of land, and that it even comes with title insurance. “It is a major reform that has never been undertaken,” said Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy while addressing a public meeting at Machilipatnam on May 6 and questioned if the …

India's landless poor: Amid rising rural poverty and lower access to land, empowering this group must be priority
6 years, 5 months ago

India's landless poor: Amid rising rural poverty and lower access to land, empowering this group must be priority

Firstpost  

The landless are, in fact, the “poorest of the poor” – according to the Government of India’s own admission, for whom, among others, it launched an insurance policy, Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana, in 2007. The Socio-Economic and Caste Census of 2011, which acknowledged and counted landlessness as a major indicator of poverty, put the ‘households with no land’ at 56.41 …

Land laws across India
8 years, 9 months ago

Land laws across India

The Hindu  

Various states follow different procedures for the purchase of agricultural land. Under Section 109 of Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964, social or industrial organisations can purchase agricultural land with Government approval. The maximum ceiling limit of land area as per the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 is as follows: a) In case of an adult unmarried person or a family …

Land reform failures: Only 5% of India’s farmers control 32% farmland
8 years, 10 months ago

Land reform failures: Only 5% of India’s farmers control 32% farmland

Firstpost  

What has largely failed nationwide — with the exception of West Bengal — over 54 years since a land redistribution law was passed, is not likely to improve By Sumit Chaturvedi Almost three decades ago in 1990, Radheshyam, 49, was given half an acre of farm land free, taken away from a landlord as part of what was then a …

Odisha govt has no surplus land for 4.5 lakh landless poor
9 years, 1 month ago

Odisha govt has no surplus land for 4.5 lakh landless poor

Hindustan Times  

Odisha has almost no land left for the landless poor — nearly 4.50 lakh families in all. The government has more or less exhausted all ceiling surplus land at its disposal after distributing them to more than 1.40 lakh landless families in the state, mostly from scheduled tribes and scheduled castes, reveals a response to questions filed under the right …

Tough political decisions needed to provide land to landless: Ramesh
11 years, 4 months ago

Tough political decisions needed to provide land to landless: Ramesh

Firstpost  

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday declared Kannur in Kerala as the first zero landless district in the country and said that “political will” was required to implement such a programme on an all-India basis. Kannur : Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday declared Kannur in Kerala as the first zero landless district in the country and said …

Promised land
11 years, 7 months ago

Promised land

The Hindu  

Last October, the Ministry of Rural Development promised thousands of landless Jan Satyagraha agitators that it would draft a new land reforms policy, correct the inequitable distribution of land and safeguard the rights of traditional forest dwellers. In the event that mining is taken up after getting consent, the sabha would retain ownership of the land and receive 50 per …

Small measure, big gain
11 years, 8 months ago

Small measure, big gain

The Hindu  

Will ten cents of land for each of the landless and near-landless households transform the poverty scenario in rural India? The soon-to-be-tabled National Right to Homestead Bill proposes to seek legislative approval for providing no less than 4,360 sq feet plot to each of the 31 per cent landless and 30 per cent near-landless households who own on an average …

A patch to call their own
12 years, 5 months ago

A patch to call their own

The Hindu  

The frustration behind the Jan Satyagraha, the long march of the landless to Delhi, was justified. Reforms meant to help the poor access land have been on the policy agenda since Independence, but the ground situation has hardly changed. The 10-point agreement he signed with Ekta Parishad has the potential to lead to a comprehensive new policy that would reduce …

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