Banglar Bhumi LAND AND LAND REFORMS

West Bengal is the leader in land reforms in the country. If we look back to the history, it is the Regulation of 1793 which created Zamindary system with füll proprietary right in the land subject to the payment of the land revenue. In 1885 the Bengal Tenancy Act was passed. This act was formulated
to consolidate certain enactments relating to land Board of Revenue was formed in the year 1786.This Board was the apex body of entire land revenue administration of state After independence on 15th August 1947,Govt of West Bengal promulgated The West Bengal Estate Acquisition Act 1953 and all intermediary interests were abolished A huge
quantum of land was vested. Then the West Bengal Land Reforms Act1955 was introduced and family based ceiling provisions were adopted. The State has distributed 23% of the whole land distributed in the country and to 3 of the beneficiaries vis-a-vis in ail other States West Bengal has recorded more than 15 lakh Bargadars Share croppers, wuch has not been done amywhere else in the country and has
distributed homestead land more than 5.6 lakh beneficiaries, There are more than 30 lakh patta holders in the State