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Manmohan to head land reforms council

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: Responding to the Janadesh March into the capital by thousands of rural poor and landless people on Sunday to press their demands, the Union government on Monday announced the setting up of a National Land Reforms Council with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its chairman.

The Council will take a “holistic approach” to land reforms and related land management issues and will come out with a National Land Reforms Policy.

Political-level body

The Council, likely to be a political-level body with representation from the States as well as the Centre, will be assisted by a committee on ‘State Agrarian Relations and Unfinished Task in Land Reforms’ to be headed by Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.

The committee will have experts from related specialities and fields, and will be in place within a month.

The committee will look into issues of land reform, distribution of ceiling surplus land and wasteland, tenancy, right to the tiller and setting up of fast track courts in a time-bound manner.

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