THE EXPERIENCE OF CARRYING OUT LAND REFORMS IN INDIA
Issue № 6, 2016, article № 11, pages 79-85
Section: Foreign news
Language: Russian
Original language title: ОПЫТ ПРОВЕДЕНИЯ ЗЕМЕЛЬНЫХ РЕФОРМ В ИНДИИ
Keywords: «ЗАКОН ОБ ИЗЪЯТИИ ЗЕМЕЛЬ, INDIA, LAND REFORM, AGRICULTURAL LAND LEASING, LAND OWNERS TITLE, «LAND ACQUISITION, REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT ACT», COMPENSATION
Abstract: India takes the third place in the world on production of agricultural production and has the biggest area in the world of the irrigated lands. In the country the system of a private property on the earth is developed, and further development of agriculture is at a loss private interest of large landowners land owners. The land in India is an object of the state control, and in each state there are features of the rights for rent. The main objectives of land reform in India after the achievement of independence were: a) the struggle with poverty; b) cancellation of the mediation in land transactions; c) land lease reform; d) ensuring the transparency of land transactions; e) redistribution of public land reserve; f) increasing the area of cultivated land. For more than 60 years of reform most of the tasks has not been solved. The main success of Indian land policy lies in the evolution of mediator institutions in land transactions, computerization of all land services and land renters. In the result of the land reform three tasks were not solved: cancellation of big landowner's properties; cancellation of land sales limits; liberalization of leasing laws. Main articles of new Acquisition Act were analyzed. The most criticized topic in this Acquisition Act is the rule that about 80‰ of landowners agree for the land acquisition. The new law has increased payments and compensations for seizure of land and has introduced restrictions for withdrawal of the irrigated agricultural land. The law can concern directly 132 million hectares of farmlands, and about 100 million land owners
Authors: Volkov Sergei Gennadevich, Vlasova Tatiana Kuzminichna