AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION

BHOODAN AND GRAMDAN MOVEMENTS

Bhoodan: An unofficial movement of a revolutionary character has been started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave. His Bhoodan movement seeks to find a peaceful solution to the problem of landless labourers. By collecting lands from voluntary gifts, he wants to distribute them to landless labourers, at the rate of 5 acres for each family of agricultural workers. Bhoodan means the land donated to the movement initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave for the acquisition of land through voluntary gifts in favour of the Bhoodan Board. In this movement a landowner may donate any piece of land to the Board. Gramdan means voluntary donation of land in a village for the purpose of Maharashtra Gramdan Act, 1964, and in accordance with the provision thereof. Here, any owner of land, not being a minor, may file a declaration in the prescribed form before the Collector that he donates voluntarily and without any consideration agrees to transfer to the mandal all his land in the village specified in the declaration by way of Gramdan.

In Bhandara district the position of Bhoodan movement is as shown below: —

Gramdan: The Bhandara Zilla Sarvodaya Mandal has furnished the declarations in the following villages to the Tahsildars concerned for declaring the villages as Gramdan villages under the Maharashtra Gramdan Act, 1964.

None of the villages has yet been declared as Gramdan village and the proceedings are under enquiry.

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