Critically evaluate the land reforms programme in india
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the term ‘land reforms’, we mean reforms of institutional factors related to land. In order to raise the agricultural production and also increase the level of income and standard of living of the cultivators, institutional factors along with technical factors are playing an important role. These institutional factors include land tenure system, land holdings; farming structure, land distribution, intermediaries etc.
Land reform measures have been introduced by various underdeveloped and developing countries for attaining a rational land distribution pattern and viable farming structure. Accordingly, E.V. Long has rightly observed. “In most of the underdeveloped countries land reforms is one of the main cornerstones of agrarian policy.” In order to attain institutional changes in agrarian structure, land reforms are considered effective. Prof. Gunner Myrdal argued, in this connection, “Land reforms are a planned and institutional reorganisation of the relation between man and land