Banglar Bhumi

Land is of critical significance to the vast majority of the poor who derive their livelihood from agriculture. Physical subsistence, procuring a decent, dignified livelihood and the well being of entire family depends on land. The issue of land rights and access to resources is, therefore, one where land must be envisioned as a productive unit which sustains inter related livelihood resources.

Land reforms may be defined as a package of measures to remedy the ills, the agrarian society suffers from due to the skewed nature of distribution of land. Naturally, therefore, the Govt. has a legal and moral duty to ensure that this resource is put to the optimum and also socially acceptable utilization.

Implementation of land reforms and evolution of equitable agrarian relations are goals that we have inherited from the Indian freedom movement. This is a part of our national psyche. West Bengal is one of the very few States of India where land reforms has been implemented to its hilt. The main components of our land reforms programme in West Bengal have been :-

1. To implement ceiling laws and to distribute vested land among landless cultivators especially belonging to SC & ST;
2. To protect the rights of small and marginal cultivators including share croppers
3. To prevent alienation of tribal land;
4. To prevent alienation of tribal land
5. Maintenance of real time land records.

Visit: https://banglarbhumi.gov.in/

Director of Land Records and Survey

35, Survey Building, Gopal Nagar Road, Kolkata
Location : Kolkata | City : Kolkata | PIN Code : 700027
Phone : 033-2479-5726 | Email : dlrswb[dot]grievancecell[at]gmail[dot]com