Property issue on India ceiling act how to know legal owneship
13-Aug-2023 (In Property Law)
On India ceiling act our relatives captured our lands saying it as their property and they took away many lands. But now after the death of my grandmother,they are claiming all our lands as their property. what documents should we check from them to prove the ownership? Also, my grandparents were then in Calcutta and this lands are in Mangalore. So we are not sure, if our relatives have actually registered this land also. Would be really great if any one can advice on this. And please advice on land act by Indira Gandhi. What should we do?
1. After abolition of Zamindari, the (superior) tenant farmers became virtual owners of the land. They owned tens and hundreds of acres of land. While other (inferior tenants/sharecroppers/landless laborers) owned nothing.
2. Many Zamindars themselves kept lot of land in pretext of ‘personal cultivation’.
Therefore, State governments enacted land ceiling acts. E.g.an individual farmer cannot own land beyond say 10 acres. Thus, if a farmer owned 12 acres, government would take away 12-10=2 acres of surplus land from him, and “distribute” it to some landless laborers. This is Second tool of Land reform.
before going further let’s again recap the players in a tenancy system
What is Ceiling on Land Holdings?
• It means fixing maximum size of land holding that an individual/family can own.
• Land over and above the ceiling limit, called surplus land.
• if the individual/family owns more land than the ceiling limit, the surplus land is taken away (with or without paying compensation to original owner)
• This surplus land is
a. distributed among small farmers, tenants, landless labourers or
b. handed over to village panchayat or
c. Given to cooperative farming societies.
2. Many Zamindars themselves kept lot of land in pretext of ‘personal cultivation’.
Therefore, State governments enacted land ceiling acts. E.g.an individual farmer cannot own land beyond say 10 acres. Thus, if a farmer owned 12 acres, government would take away 12-10=2 acres of surplus land from him, and “distribute” it to some landless laborers. This is Second tool of Land reform.
before going further let’s again recap the players in a tenancy system
What is Ceiling on Land Holdings?
• It means fixing maximum size of land holding that an individual/family can own.
• Land over and above the ceiling limit, called surplus land.
• if the individual/family owns more land than the ceiling limit, the surplus land is taken away (with or without paying compensation to original owner)
• This surplus land is
a. distributed among small farmers, tenants, landless labourers or
b. handed over to village panchayat or
c. Given to cooperative farming societies.
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