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dated September 25, 1957 (there being no issue of the paper dated September 24) : The Gramdan movement

President Rajendra Prasad, addressing the Gramdan Conference at Yelwal (Mysore) on September 23, pointed out that in the Bhoodan stage the main thing was that people who had land parted with portions of it for the landless. In Gramdan they had come to the stage where there would be no private property in land and that was a big difference as a result of the Gramdan movement. Sponsors of the Gramdan Parishad expressed gratification at the results of the conference and a spokesman claimed the two-day conference had been a success in that it had been found possible to get the leaders of the major political parties on a common platform for the first time to focus attention on the Gramdan movement. The Planning Minister, Mr. Gulzarilal Nanda, who participated in the conference, expressed his willingness to help wherever this was needed, but felt that any important change could not be brought about except in close collaboration with the various organs of administration. In his address, Acharya Vinoba Bhave said more than 3,000 villages had thus far been voluntarily offered as Gramdan.

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