Successful Agrarian Reforms With Existing Poverty

S.Arrivazhaguy, Guest Lecturer, Government Law College, Viluppuram

ABSTRACT

Agrarian reforms can be referred as redistribution of agricultural land to landless which often includes land reform measures. But there is a difference between land reform and agrarian reform that the former is concerned with rights in land, and their character, strength and distribution whereas the later focuses not only on these but also on a broader set of issues; the class character of the relations of production and distribution in farming and related enterprises, and how these connect to the wider class structure. It is thus concerned about economic and political power and the relations between them.

The most important aspect of agrarian reform in India was the legislation on liquidating the zamindari system. Agrarian reform with respect to leasing was still more limited in nature. One of the controversial measures of land reforms is the ceiling on land holding .The levels vary from State to State.

During first five year plan the highest priority was accorded to increase of agricultural production. Consequently production of food-grains increased by 36 percent in a short span of five years.

One of the major negative features of agrarian transition in India is the continued concentration of land in the hands of the upper strata of the rural society. This has not undergone any change in the past six decades, despite the reforms.

Even after agrarian reforms and also crossing 12th Five year plan we could repeatedly hear the news about the farmer’s suicide in Tamil Nadu, we could realise that farmers are in need of monsoon and modern irrigational techniques instead of freebies. It is right time to think seriously of agrarian reforms with reference to the present ground reality.