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Data sought for drafting rural development policy
Mon, 15 February 2021
The Ministry of Rural Development has instructed local authorities to gather and analyse data and report statistics pertaining to the demarcation of rural areas in preparation for drafting the 2021-2030 national rural development policy.
The ministry held a workshop in Stung Treng province on February 8 to examine the progress and quality of the ongoing work and reports of conditions in rural areas.
Workshop participants included delegates from the ministry, heads of provincial rural development departments, deputy and district governors and commune chiefs from five provinces. They also consulted over objectives and indicators relevant to the draft policy.
The Katsina State Government has commenced the training of 1,000 youths across the state on business development and entrepreneurship skills in order to avert youths unemployment and restiveness in the state.
West Bengal. Six of them have made the amendments in the last three years, and two in 2020 alone, indicating an accelerating trend.
In at least two states, Karnataka and Gujarat, the amendments have led to protests by groups of both landowning and landless farmers, who have demanded that the amendments be withdrawn and allotment of surplus land to the landless be prioritised.
India’s efforts at land reforms have a long history. After Independence, starting in the 1960s, 21 states enacted land reforms laws to address the
historic inequality in land ownership in India. The laws set a limit on how much land an individual or corporation could hold, also known as a land “ceiling” and allowed the government to reapportion surplus land to the landless.
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In 1971, a small group of women, who made a living transporting bolts of cloth on pushcarts in Ahmedabad’s bustling textile market, approached the Women’s Wing of the Textile Labour Association (TLA).
Their complaint was that the wages being paid to them by the cloth merchants was a pittance.
Many were forced to live on the street as they could not even afford a single room to live in with their families. Even worse than the cart-pullers was the fate of those who ferried bolts of cloth on their heads and backs.