A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... means for shipping heavy goods , supplies and products . The railways carried 80 percent of the goods and 70 percent of the passenger traffic . Total mileage of railroads was 34,000 , and surfaced roads 90,000 . transportation was ...
... means for shipping heavy goods , supplies and products . The railways carried 80 percent of the goods and 70 percent of the passenger traffic . Total mileage of railroads was 34,000 , and surfaced roads 90,000 . transportation was ...
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... . Cooperative organization was favored as a means for settling landless workers . Panchayats ( village counsels ) were to be given a role in ( 1 ) improving records of rights , ( 2 ) finding lands for displaced tenants , ( - 32 -
... . Cooperative organization was favored as a means for settling landless workers . Panchayats ( village counsels ) were to be given a role in ( 1 ) improving records of rights , ( 2 ) finding lands for displaced tenants , ( - 32 -
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... means for combining resource in agriculture Tenancy or as a means for attaining a desirable distribution of income . was felt to allow insecurity , lack of investment , reduction in work incentive , and an unfair relation between ...
... means for combining resource in agriculture Tenancy or as a means for attaining a desirable distribution of income . was felt to allow insecurity , lack of investment , reduction in work incentive , and an unfair relation between ...
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... means for village level credit but a national credit structure . Agricultural Refinance Corporation was organized under a 1963 act for granting medium term and long term credit by way of refinance or otherwise , for agricultural ...
... means for village level credit but a national credit structure . Agricultural Refinance Corporation was organized under a 1963 act for granting medium term and long term credit by way of refinance or otherwise , for agricultural ...
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... means for supplying credit to cultivators they have expanded their role in supplying credit to the point where they now supply up to 30 percent of production credit . Short and medium term credit is extended through a three level system ...
... means for supplying credit to cultivators they have expanded their role in supplying credit to the point where they now supply up to 30 percent of production credit . Short and medium term credit is extended through a three level system ...
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administration agrarian reforms Agric agricultural amended Andhra Pradesh Bihar Land Reforms Bombay British rule caste ceilings century classes compensation Congress consolidation of holdings cooperative crops cultivators Delhi districts Econ economic effect enactment ex-intermediaries farmers Five Year Plan Government of India Gujarat Implementation of Land improved income distribution increase independence Indian Journ inputs intermediary interests irrigation K. B. Sahay Kerala khas possession land reform legislation land reform program Land Reforms Act land revenue land tenure landholding landless laborers landlords landowners Madhya Pradesh Madras Maharashtra ment million acres moneylenders Mysore Orissa Oudh output owners ownership payment peasant peasantry percent period Planning Commission political population production Punjab raiyat Rajasthan records redistribution reform in India region rent rights in land Rural India ryotwari Section sector security of tenure social Survey talukdars tenants tenure-holders Thorner Uttar Pradesh village West Bengal Zamindari Abolition zamindars
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Page 54 - It is hard to think of anything more likely to lift up the spirits of masses of depressed or "backward" folk. Carried out properly, such a step might even lead to a real burst of enthusiasm, a genuine release of energy among the working peasantry. Their rights in land would increase and so would their share of the land's product. They would forthwith want more food, clothing and non-luxury housing materials ; in time they would want other commodities, some of the better things of life, and more education...
Page 31 - These recommendations relate to: — (1) Abolition of Intermediaries; (2) Tenancy reforms, eg, security of tenure to the tenants, provision of fair rents and a right of purchase for the tenants; (3) Fixation of ceiling on land holding and the distribution of the surplus land; (4) Improvement of the conditions of the agricultural workers; and (5) Co-operative organisation of agriculture with the ultimate objective of cooperative village management.