If a seminar is held on the topic some members of NOBA Delhi too may like to
contribute thieir views.

vyas ji <vyas56@...> wrote: Dear Kishanji,
Why not to organise a discussion on land reforms in Bihar unde the aegis of
"Peoples' Alliance for Development of Bihar" for submitting our considered
views to the proposed Commission?
with regards,
Vyas Ji,IAS
DI/178,SATYA MARG
CHANAKYA PURI
NEW DELHI
Tel:91-11-24104313(R),91-11-26701619(O)





>From: "Rajesh Jha" <kjrajesh@...>
>Reply-To: biharchintan@...
>To: "Bihar Chintan" <biharchintan@...>
>Subject: [biharchintan] Nitish to implement Bengal model for land reforms
>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:28:40 +0530
>
>Nitish to implement Bengal model for land reforms
>Ambarish Dutta
>The Tribune, May 31, 2006
>
>Patna, May 30
>Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has decided to follow upgraded Bengal
>model for land reforms in Bihar. He has made his intention clear to
>the top bureaucrats in the state to set up a land reforms commission
>shortly to set the pace for land reforms.
>
>The land reforms were promised in the common minimum programme (CMP)
>of the NDA before the October-November polls.
>
>Sources disclosed that Mr Kumar had already consulted a number of
>experts on this issue. A Cabinet meeting, held last week, had also
>approved the CMP of the NDA, which underscored the need for land
>reforms to foster socio-economic development at the grassroots.
>
>The sources said, "The land-related disputes were a major issue used
>by the Maoists to engineer social tension on caste lines".
>
>It was learnt that Mr Kumar was personally in favour of broadly
>following the West Bengal model of land reforms, which, besides some
>other factors, had helped the Left Front to continue in power by
>arresting the anti-incumbency factor to a great extent for the past 29
>years since 1977.
>
>During an interaction with the bureaucrats, Mr Kumar reportedly
>favoured a step forward than the Left-ruled West Bengal by linking
>land reforms to multi-cropping and agro-based industries to generate
>employment at the rural level.
>
>This was yet to be achieved by the Left Front in Bengal even after the
>enactment of land reforms in as early as late 1970s.
>
>The sources disclosed that last week land reforms expert
>D.Bandopadhyay met Mr Kumar to apprise him about the West Bengal model
>and also suggested the changes required now to upgrade the said
>concept.
>
>Mr Bandopadhyay, a retired bureaucrat, had played a key role in
>facilitating land reforms in Bengal under the then Chief Minister
>Jyoti Basu.
>
>A senior official pointed out that notwithstanding the alleged misrule
>of the previous RJD government, Bihar had ceased to be a happening
>state much before Mr Lalu Prasad came to power in 1990. "On key
>economic parameters, it became the second worst among the country's
>major states in 1961 and the worst by 1971," he said quoting official
>statistics.
>
>Incidentally, except a brief spell of governance by the Janata Party
>between 1977 and 1979, for the entire phase since Independence, till
>the continuous spell of the successive non-Congress governments that
>took over the reins of the state in 1990, the Congress-ruled Bihar.
>
>At a time when Mr Kumar was carefully working out strategies for the
>land reform-related measures by taking into consideration the complex
>caste problem of the state, the ruling NDA was optimistic to blur the
>perennial caste divide to a great extent once land reforms was in
>place, besides isolating the Maoists from the people.
>
>Meanwhile, much to the delight of Mr Kumar, the CEO of Bharti Limited,
>Mr Sunil Mittal, has expressed his intention to venture into the
>agro-based industries in the state. The Bharti group will soon send a
>team to Bihar to study the cropping pattern and consult land experts
>before submitting the plan to Mr Kumar.




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