Land Reforms

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Economic Outlook 2025: Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Policy for Sustainable Recovery

The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …

Land reform bill passed in House

The Mamata Banerjee government will make few amendments in the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, in its bid to attract new investment in the state. The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2012, was passed in the state Assembly by 152-46 votes after the Opposition Left Front sought a …

Mamata intervenes to provide land to industry on easier conditions

Kolkata West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has finally intervened to provide land to industry on easier conditions. The government has removed the ceiling of a maximum 24 acre that an industrial unit could buy in the state directly. The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill 2012 introduced in the …

Bengal Raises Land Holding Cap for Industry

Amendment in land law to allow entrepreneurs to hold more than 24 acres; leasing policy is eased too. The West Bengal assembly has passed the Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2012, to promote setting up of business establishments like factory, port and airport and also proposed to raise the upper ceiling …

‘Inclusive Growth Is Larger Than MGNREGA’

In an interaction with BW’s Rajeev Dubey, Professor S. Mahendra Dev argues why our inclusive growth is far from ‘inclusive’ Both UPA I and UPA II have had identical social objectives: enormously expensive subsidy-laden programmes that began with job guarantee through MGNREGA and have since expanded to free education, food …

To breathe life into waterbodies, Delhi govt turns to fish culture

As dismal as their condition has been, the ponds in Delhi could soon get a new lease of life — in the form of fish culture. The Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday decided to promote fish culture in the rural waterbodies of the Capital. The government said the move is aimed …

Govt to promote fish culture in villages

The Delhi Cabinet today decided to encourage fish culture in villages in order to overcome encroachment activities over the water bodies situated under gram sabha land. While talking to media after the meeting, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that the Cabinet had decided to promote fish culture in the water …

Delhi Govt. to promote fish farming in rural areas

The Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday approved auctioning of fishing activities in 24 water bodies on gram sabha land in the Capital. At a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, it was decided that fish culture would be encouraged in the water bodies and village ponds to overcome the problem …

Jairam Ramesh Becomes ‘Online Contender’ to Head World Bank

Can Jairam Ramesh become the next president of the World Bank? Unlikely, but in the steady drumbeat of the demand that the next World Bank president must come from the developing world, the rural development minister’s name is being heard alongside several other competent names from the wrong side of …

Tribals set to get back land- Govt starts proceedings to return illegally acquired garden

Islampur, Jan. 30: The North Dinajpur district administration has started the proceedings to return more than 70 acres of land to its rightful tribal owners in Ramganj. This is the first time that the administration has taken up the initiative to restore illegally occupied tribal land, an official claimed. On …

Tribals set to get back land- Govt starts proceedings to return illegally acquired garden

Islampur, Jan. 30: The North Dinajpur district administration has started the proceedings to return more than 70 acres of land to its rightful tribal owners in Ramganj. This is the first time that the administration has taken up the initiative to restore illegally occupied tribal land, an official claimed. On …

Mamata’s move to protect farmland, for food security

KOLKATA, 23 JAN: Going a step ahead of what former land and land reforms reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah had proposed about barring non-farmers from buying farmland, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is considering banning the sale of arable land in the state for any purpose other than agriculture. Mr Mollah …

Impact fee law may require changes

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government may have to go in for major changes in the state’s land-related laws which are currently being applied for regularizing land titles – in case it wants to apply the new impact fee law, passed in the state assembly in September 2011 for legalizing illegal structures constructed …

A saga of three villages in Andhra Pradesh

A study of the socio-economic situations of three villages in north-eastern Andhra Pradesh shows that while times and values have vastly changed, not much has been transformed in terms of privileges and opportunities. Those belonging to landowning families have managed to get a good education and secure good jobs or …

South Asia forest tenure assessment

This assessment of forest tenure systems in South Asia focuses on current state of tenure and the relationship between tenure security and sustainable forest management and livelihood opportunities. This assessment report follows the conceptual framework developed by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) in a publication - From Exclusion to …

Turning point: what future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order?

This report takes stock of the current status of forest rights and tenure globally, assesses the key issues and events of 2011 that shape possibilities to improve local rights and livelihoods, and identifies key questions and challenges that the world will face in 2012 and beyond.

Statewide agri census to start today

Jamshedpur, Dec. 14: The state is ready for its first-ever agricultural census, which kicks off tomorrow. The census — to be carried out in three phases — will cover all revenue villages in the 24 districts of the state. Jharkhand, which failed to compile the data despite embarking on the …

Bid for Bill for agriculture boost

GUWAHATI: Slow but steady shrinking of land meant for agriculture in Assam has become a matter of serious concern for the State Government. At a time when both the Central and State governments are giving a thrust on agricultural reforms, large-scale diversion of agricultural land for other activities in different …

NGO makes fresh allegations against Reddy brothers

Samaj Parivarthana Samudaya president S R Hiremath has said the National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR), which has been spearheading the movement against illegal mining in the State, has acquired some crucial documents that will expose more illegal land transactions by Reddy brothers and their associates. Addressing a …

Gaining control : "Re-peasantisation" in Araponga

Innovative policies in Brazil, such as the Zero Hunger Programme, have significantly reduced poverty in the past decade. Yet, land distribution remains a serious challenge: 46% of all land is controlled by 1% of the population. In Araponga, farmers have not only been able to acquire land: they have increased …

Right to food impact assessment of the EU-India trade agreement

The European Union (EU) and the Government of India are currently negotiating a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that aims to liberalise 'substantially all trade' between the two trading blocks on a reciprocal basis. Beyond trade in goods, the FTA will contain chapters on services, investment, public procurement, intellectual property …

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