"it create problems of satisfactory rehabilitation of displaced people" pls make this line easy so i can learn it
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Within a few months of the Partition of the country in August, 1947 nearly 5 million Hindus and Sikhs living in West Pakistan had to leave their homes. Under somewhat different conditions I -5 million displaced persons migrated from East Pakistan. The disturbances in East Pakistan early in 1950 brought another million or so. According to the 1951 Census, about 7-5 million persons had moved into India in search of permanent homes, 4-9 million from West Pakistan and about 2-6 million lakhs from East Pakistan.
2. The displaced persons from West^Pakistan are dispersed over the Punjab, PEPSU, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Saurashtra, Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Bharat, Ajmer, Bhopal and Rajasthan. They are more or less evenly divided as between urban and rural avocations.
3. Although 2 -6 million Hindus had moved into India from East Pakistan by the beginning of 1951, there are still seven or eight million Hindus living there. The influx continues ;
sometimes it slows down and sometimes, as during recent months, it assumes serious proportions. There are at present over 2 • I million displaced persons in West Bengal and of them, i -4 million are in Calcutta and the two neighbouring districts of Nadia and 24-Parganas. The economy of West Bengal has thus been subjected to very serious strain. It is estimated that 92 per cent. or about 2-4 million of these displaced persons derived their livelihood from agriculture or ancillary occupations.
RURAL REHABILITATION
4. In some States of India, namely the Punjab, PEPSU, Rajasthan and Delhi, large areas of agricultural land were left vacant by the Muslim evacuees. The Government of India utilised these lands and explored other avenues for rural rehabilitation of displaced persons from West Pakistan. Three distinct policies were followed :—
quasi-permanent allotment of evacuee agricultural land in the Punjab and PEPSU;
allotment of evacuee agricultural land on a temporary basis in other parts of India, especially the States of Delhi and Rajasthan;
settlement of culturable waste lands reclaimed by the various State Governments or the Central Tractor Organisation.
The first policy constituted the single largest measure of rehabilitation and was carried out in respect of displaced land-owners from West Punjab and of Punjabi extraction from other parts of West Pakistan. These persons had left behind 6-7 million acres, whereas the area abandoned by Muslim evacuees in the Punjab and PEPSU was 4-7 million acres, or in terms of 'standard acres' (into which differences in qualities of land and differences of rights were reduced) 3-9 and 2-4 million respectively. This gap of nearly 1-5 million 'standard acres' was madeup by applying graded cuts on a slab system. A cut of 25 per cent. was imposed on holdings upto 10 acres. Higher cuts were applied to the larger holdings and the highest cut was at the rate of 95 per cent. in the case of holdings over 1,000 acres. An owner of 10 'standard' acres received an allotment of 7^ acres, of 100 acres 51^ acres, of 500 acres 126^ acres, of 1000 acres 176^ acres and of 5000 acres 376^ acres. The allotment was on a quasi-permanent basis. In all, 2-4 million 'standard acres' were allotted to about half a million families. About 93 per cent. of the allotted area has been taken possession of by the allottees. The allotments of those who failed to take possession of their lands were cancelled and the lands so vacated were reallotted to displaced persons whose claims had not been met so far.
5. In addition to displaced persons who received quasi-permanent allotments of land, there were about 76,000 agriculturist families who had either been working as tenants of Muslim evacuees or had been settled temporarily on evacuee land immediately after the Partition although they had left no land as owners in West Pakistan. Over 33,000 of them have already been satisfactorily settled as tenants-at-will and through new tenancy legislation and otherwise the Punjab and PEPSU Governments have taken it upon themselves to see that the remaining tenant families are also absorbed within the rural economy.
6. The second and third policies were confined primarily to displaced agriculturists from West Pakistan who had lands outside West Punjab or were not of Punjabi origin. The area allotted to a family depended on its size. From 10 to 15 acres were allotted to each family in Alwar and Bharatpur, 16 to 24 acres of irrigated land and 16 to 32 acres ofunirrigated land in Bikaner, 5 to 10 acres in Delhi and 10 acres in the Ganga Khadar and the Naini Tal Tarai areas ofUttar Pradesh. In all, 57,500 families have been settled on 7-4 lakh acres. Of them as many as 44,000 families have been settled in Rajasthan alone, especially in the districts of Alwar, Bharatpur and Shri Ganganagar in Bikaner, all of which now form part of Rajasthan.