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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | New Gujarat Land Law Triggers Fears Among Farmers in State -Rajiv Shah

New Gujarat Land Law Triggers Fears Among Farmers in State -Rajiv Shah

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published Published on Oct 12, 2015   modified Modified on Oct 12, 2015
-TheWire.in

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Agricultural Land Ceiling (Amendment) Bill, 2015, unanimously passed in the two-day monsoon session of the Gujarat state assembly – after Congress MLAs were suspended for creating a “ruckus” –  is finally beginning to get national attention. The Bill is lying with President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, awaiting his final nod after the Gujarat governor, O.P. Kohli, sent it to Delhi for approval.  According to sources, the risk-averse Kohli felt that its provisions needed “Central scrutiny”.

Gujarat Congress leaders met the President recently, asking him not give sign the Bill. They allege that it seeks to “hand over” surplus land – acquired during the land reforms days of the 1960s but lying idle since then – to industry and not to landless and marginal peasants. Taking a similar line, Gujarat-based farmer activists have begun pointing towards how the Bill seeks to do away with the Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act, 1960, whose main purpose was to distribute surplus land to the landless across Gujarat.

Says Sagar Rabari, a senior farmers’ activist associated with the Khedut Samaj, Gujarat, “Basically an anti-zamindari measure, among those who gained the most out of [the 1960 law] were the Patels of Saurashtra, who received the surplus land which earlier belonged to the Rajput landlords”. He adds, “But thousands of acres of land even today are lying with the Gujarat government. Instead of distributing it to the 54 lakh landless workers in the state – mainly SCs, STs and OBCs – the government wants to give it to industry.”

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TheWire.in, 12 October, 2015, http://thewire.in/2015/10/12/new-gujarat-land-law-triggers-fears-among-farmers-in-state-12901/


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