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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But on the ground, in early April, Baluben Makwana led me through a dirt path to an unexpected scene. On one side was a sprawling expanse of wheat fields, ripe stalks swaying gently in the wind and a lone tractor weaving through to harvest the crop. On the other side, neat rows of castor oil shrubs stretched into the horizon, their branches tall, thin and bare. The ripe fruit had been plucked the previous week, and now a group of sickle-wielding women were hacking down the shrubs in preparation for the next sowing season.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the past 12 years, led by Baluben, this group of 51 Dalit women from Vautha, in Ahmedabad district&amp;rsquo;s Dholka block, had converted around 36 acres of the government&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;non-useful&amp;rdquo; wasteland into fertile farms that yield two crops a year. The land has become a precious source of livelihood for their families, and 72-year-old Baluben&amp;rsquo;s only dream is for her band of Dalit women to get formal ownership over it.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;But on the ground, in early April, Baluben Makwana led me through a dirt path to an unexpected scene. On one side was a sprawling expanse of wheat fields, ripe stalks swaying gently in the wind and a lone tractor weaving through to harvest the crop. On the other side, neat rows of castor oil shrubs stretched into the horizon, their branches tall, thin and bare. The ripe fruit had been plucked the previous week, and now a group of sickle-wielding women were hacking down the shrubs in preparation for the next sowing season.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the past 12 years, led by Baluben, this group of 51 Dalit women from Vautha, in Ahmedabad district&amp;rsquo;s Dholka block, had converted around 36 acres of the government&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;non-useful&amp;rdquo; wasteland into fertile farms that yield two crops a year. The land has become a precious source of livelihood for their families, and 72-year-old Baluben&amp;rsquo;s only dream is for her band of Dalit women to get formal ownership over it.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.behanbox.com/2021/11/29/a-dalit-womens-collective-is-fighting-for-the-land-it-toils-on-in-gujarat/&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Mumbai: </em>Around 400 metres off the Gujarat state highway near Vautha village, along the snake-like curves of the Sabarmati river, lie nearly a hundred acres of land that government records describe as &ldquo;non-useful riverside land&rdquo;.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">But on the ground, in early April, Baluben Makwana led me through a dirt path to an unexpected scene. On one side was a sprawling expanse of wheat fields, ripe stalks swaying gently in the wind and a lone tractor weaving through to harvest the crop. On the other side, neat rows of castor oil shrubs stretched into the horizon, their branches tall, thin and bare. The ripe fruit had been plucked the previous week, and now a group of sickle-wielding women were hacking down the shrubs in preparation for the next sowing season.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In the past 12 years, led by Baluben, this group of 51 Dalit women from Vautha, in Ahmedabad district&rsquo;s Dholka block, had converted around 36 acres of the government&rsquo;s &ldquo;non-useful&rdquo; wasteland into fertile farms that yield two crops a year. The land has become a precious source of livelihood for their families, and 72-year-old Baluben&rsquo;s only dream is for her band of Dalit women to get formal ownership over it.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The farmer&rsquo;s collective that the women are members of &ndash; the Jai Bhim Mahila Kheti Sahakari Mandali &ndash; has repeatedly petitioned the state government to grant them ownership of the land under Gujarat&rsquo;s Santhani scheme. Introduced in the 1960s, Santhani &ndash; a Gujarati word for plantation &ndash; is a land redistribution scheme designed to empower marginalised, landless farmers.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Under the scheme, the government distributes land to landless or marginal farmers, agricultural labourers and even farmers&rsquo; cooperatives from the backward classes. The distributed land includes state-owned wasteland as well as farmland acquired through the Gujarat Agricultural Land Ceiling Act, 1960, a law under which individuals owning more than 54 acres of land must hand over the excess land to the government.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The scheme, however, is plagued with several problems. One of them, as this report by Meenakshi Kapoor details, is that most of the 20,000 acres of wasteland distributed on paper to 7,000 landless families across Gujarat between 2005 and 2009, turned out to be poor-quality, uncultivable land.</p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Mumbai: </em>Around 400 metres off the Gujarat state highway near Vautha village, along the snake-like curves of the Sabarmati river, lie nearly a hundred acres of land that government records describe as &ldquo;non-useful riverside land&rdquo;.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">But on the ground, in early April, Baluben Makwana led me through a dirt path to an unexpected scene. On one side was a sprawling expanse of wheat fields, ripe stalks swaying gently in the wind and a lone tractor weaving through to harvest the crop. On the other side, neat rows of castor oil shrubs stretched into the horizon, their branches tall, thin and bare. The ripe fruit had been plucked the previous week, and now a group of sickle-wielding women were hacking down the shrubs in preparation for the next sowing season.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In the past 12 years, led by Baluben, this group of 51 Dalit women from Vautha, in Ahmedabad district&rsquo;s Dholka block, had converted around 36 acres of the government&rsquo;s &ldquo;non-useful&rdquo; wasteland into fertile farms that yield two crops a year. The land has become a precious source of livelihood for their families, and 72-year-old Baluben&rsquo;s only dream is for her band of Dalit women to get formal ownership over it.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The farmer&rsquo;s collective that the women are members of &ndash; the Jai Bhim Mahila Kheti Sahakari Mandali &ndash; has repeatedly petitioned the state government to grant them ownership of the land under Gujarat&rsquo;s Santhani scheme. Introduced in the 1960s, Santhani &ndash; a Gujarati word for plantation &ndash; is a land redistribution scheme designed to empower marginalised, landless farmers.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Under the scheme, the government distributes land to landless or marginal farmers, agricultural labourers and even farmers&rsquo; cooperatives from the backward classes. The distributed land includes state-owned wasteland as well as farmland acquired through the Gujarat Agricultural Land Ceiling Act, 1960, a law under which individuals owning more than 54 acres of land must hand over the excess land to the government.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The scheme, however, is plagued with several problems. One of them, as this report by Meenakshi Kapoor details, is that most of the 20,000 acres of wasteland distributed on paper to 7,000 landless families across Gujarat between 2005 and 2009, turned out to be poor-quality, uncultivable land.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.behanbox.com/2021/11/29/a-dalit-womens-collective-is-fighting-for-the-land-it-toils-on-in-gujarat/">click here</a> to read more.</p>
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A Dalit Women’s Collective Is Fighting For The Land It Toils On, In Gujarat -Aarefa Johari

-Behanbox.com Mumbai: Around 400 metres off the Gujarat state highway near Vautha village, along the snake-like curves of the Sabarmati river, lie nearly a hundred acres of land that government records describe as “non-useful riverside land”. But on the ground, in early April, Baluben Makwana led me through a dirt path to an unexpected scene. On one side was a sprawling expanse of wheat fields, ripe stalks swaying gently in the wind and a lone tractor weaving through to harvest the crop. On the other side, neat rows of castor oil shrubs stretched into the horizon, their branches tall, thin and bare. The ripe fruit had been plucked the previous week, and now a group of sickle-wielding women were hacking down the shrubs in preparation for the next sowing season.    In the past 12 years, led by Baluben, this group of 51 Dalit women from Vautha, in Ahmedabad district’s Dholka block, had converted around 36 acres of the government’s “non-useful” wasteland into fertile farms that yield two crops a year. The land has become a precious source of livelihood for their families, and 72-year-old Baluben’s only dream is for her band of Dalit women to get formal ownership over it. The farmer’s collective that the women are members of – the Jai Bhim Mahila Kheti Sahakari Mandali – has repeatedly petitioned the state government to grant them ownership of the land under Gujarat’s Santhani scheme. Introduced in the 1960s, Santhani – a Gujarati word for plantation – is a land redistribution scheme designed to empower marginalised, landless farmers. Under the scheme, the government distributes land to landless or marginal farmers, agricultural labourers and even farmers’ cooperatives from the backward classes. The distributed land includes state-owned wasteland as well as farmland acquired through the Gujarat Agricultural Land Ceiling Act, 1960, a law under which individuals owning more than 54 acres of land must hand over the excess land to the government. The scheme, however, is plagued with several problems. One of them, as this report by Meenakshi Kapoor details, is that most of the 20,000 acres of wasteland distributed on paper to 7,000 landless families across Gujarat between 2005 and 2009, turned out to be poor-quality, uncultivable land. Please click here to read more.