Question

Constitutional provision related to agriculture reforms in India

Answer 1

Well, what do you need to know? it's a broad topic to discuss but I will try to give you a basic overview of the topic-

As you know before independence the land distribution among the people of India was as uneven as it could be, the holding of lands was powered to the riches and poor people were entitled to do labour under these rich Zamindars.

The 1949 Constitution left the adoption and implementation of land and tenancy reforms to state governments. This led to a lot of dissimilarity in the implementation of these reforms across states and over time. After India Independence, the government took major step to eradicate the systems of Jamindaris and Jagirdari, to remove intermediaries between state and peasant. This was the first legislature taken by almost all the states called as Abolition of Jamindari / Jagirdari systems Act.

The main objectives of this act were-

To make redistribution of Land to make a socialistic pattern of society. Such an effort will reduce the inequalities in ownership of land.

To ensure land ceiling and take away the surplus land to be distributed among the small and marginal farmers.

To legitimize tenancy with the ceiling limit.

To register all the tenancy with the village Panchayats.

To establish relation between tenancy and ceiling.

To remove rural poverty.

Proliferating socialist development to lessen social inequality

Empowerment of women in the traditionally male driven society.

To increase productivity of agriculture.

To see that everyone can have a right on a piece of land.

Protection of tribal by not allowing outsiders to take their land.

One more thing you need to know is that, the Land reform legislation in India is categorized in to four main sections that include abolition of intermediaries who were rent collectors under the pre-Independence land revenue system, tenancy regulation that attempts to improve the contractual terms faced by tenants, including crop shares and security of tenure, a ceiling on landholdings with a view to redistributing surplus land to the landless and lastly, attempts to consolidate disparate landholdings.

This is the basic summary of land reform act, it has got a lot of history which leads us back to the Peasant Movement so keep searching and happy learning, I hope this answer would be suffice for your query.