The mainstream development literature tries to understand the changes in land relations through the lens of land reforms alone. Kerala provides an appropriate setting to understand how far radical redistributive land reforms have succeeded in transforming inequity in landownership.
Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Industries) T Balakrishnan has let loose a controversy by expressing his charging over the government decision to close down the bottling plant of Coca Cola. The unit at Palakkad had to wind up production over excessive exploitation of water and discharge of effluents.
Dharampur (West Midnapore), May 25: Maoists in Lalgarh have said they would distribute among the poor and landless the land and property belonging to CPM leaders and workers who have fled the area.
A local Maoist leader said on Sunday that the rebels would resist if the administration tried to
Whether from a class perspective or from a community identity perspective, it is undeniably the biggest failure that decades after the land reforms, a good majority of the dalits and adivasis in Kerala remain fully landless.
Horticulture, irrigation and land development works have been undertaken in 62.5 lakh hectare private lands of reserved and backward class people in the state under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
PASIGHAT, May 13: Parliamentary Secretary for Land Management Padi Richo, accompanied by a team of officers headed by Land Reforms Director, Government of India, Dr A K Singh and state Land Management Director E Nangkar visited Mirbuk village on Tuesday and had face-to-face interaction with the villagers and took their opinion regarding existing reforms and land possession system particularly in t
An Act to provide for the establishment, administration and management of a system of conclusive property titles with title guarantee and indemnification against losses due to inaccuracies in property titles, through registration of immovable properties and further to amend the relevant Acts as stated in the Schedule and matters connected therew
This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for women.
Advocate turned activist Benedict Noronha has urged the State government to introduce apposite amendments to the Articles 79A and 79B of the Land Reforms Act of 1974.
