Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Land Reforms Ordinance


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Land Reforms Ordinance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Land Reforms Ordinance was a law in the state of Kerala, India under the E.
The popular slogan for the radical socialists was "the land for tillers", which sent shockwaves through the landlord classes in the country.
The land reforms in Kerala imparted drastic changes to the political, economic and social outlook.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land_Reforms_Ordinance   (233 words)

  
 First Schedule
The Land Reforms (Pat Feeder Canal) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1976.
Ordinances Promulgated By The Governor of Former Province Of West Pakistan
Ordinances Promulgated By The Governor Of The North-West Frontier Province.
www.pakistani.org /pakistan/constitution/schedules/schedule1.html   (700 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Section9(1) : Acquisitionof land -(i)Any land required by the Authority for carryingout the purpos,eof this Ordinance shall be deemed to be needed for a public purpose and such land maybe requisitioned or acquired accordingto the requirements of the Authority.
Humanhabitationin the char land is the history that resemblesthe bitter struggle of the early settlers, of this alluvial flood plain.
Chars,unique in land type and settlementhistory, distinct in mode of life and existence, are at stake, speciallyin the Jamunaregion, owingto the changesto the river channelaswell as river morphologycausedby the Jamuna MultipurposeBridgeProject.
www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/04/15/000265513_20040415162034/Rendered/INDEX/28469.txt   (6463 words)

  
 Land   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Though 'land reforms' have in some cases divested Zamindars and big landowners of some portions of their 'ceiling surplus land', they have not been dislodged from their positions of power in rural society.
The land that actually remained in the control of the State, and was used for community purposes by the villagers, was called gair mazarua aam.
The skewed pattern of land distribution and the prevalence of tenancy farming act as structural constraints to agricultural development and to economic well-being in general.
www.struggleindia.com /?q=book/print/48   (8384 words)

  
 Human Rights and Democratic Development in Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The grip of a landed oligarchy in the Punjab and Sindh, and of tribal chiefs in Balochistan and NWFP, over the rural population continued to be a main cause of the growth of inequality in Pakistan.
The major factor responsible for the failure of the land reforms was the ceiling on ownership: the limit to the size of holdings was fixed on an individual, rather than a family, basis.
The prospect for another attempt at more genuine land reform was finally eliminated by a decision of the Federal Shariat Court in 1989 declaring the Land Reforms Ordinance of 1972 to be un-Islamic thereby establishing the principle that the whole concept of land reform is un-Islamic (15).
www.ichrdd.ca /english/commdoc/publications/demDev/pakistan/pakistanddeng2.html   (12029 words)

  
 [No title]
Ordinances Promulgated by the President The Land Reforms (Amendment) Ordinance, 1975 (XXI of 1975), and the Federal Act enacted to replace the said Ordinance.
Ordinance Promulgated by the Governor of Former Province of West Pakistan.
Ordinance Promulgated by the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.
www.pap.gov.pk /constitu/Annex.htm   (4279 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Accordingly, Cabinet approval was granted to amend the Land Reforms Ordinance of 1935 to ensure equal land rights for women following the Cabinet paper jointly presented by the Justice and Law Reforms Minister John Seneviratne and Agriculture, Lands and Irrigation Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
"According to the Land Reforms Ordinance of 1935 lands given by the Government are granted to males and when ownership of such lands passed on to the next generation a priority list was followed where men received first preference and women only thereafter".
In terms of this priority list, the ownership of the land first passed to the son, then to the daughter and thereafter the male who was next in line and thereafter to the female next in line and extended to 12 categories.
www.dailynews.lk /2005/02/12/pol09.html   (339 words)

  
 Land Reforms Ordinance: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Land Reforms Ordinance
Land Reforms Ordinance: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Land Reforms Ordinance
The Land Reforms Ordinance was a law in the state of Kerala, India under the EMS government limiting the amount of land one person could own.
Soon after taking its oath of office, the government introduced the controversial landmark Land Reforms Ordinance, which was later made into an act.
www.encyclopedian.com /la/Land-Reform-Ordinance.html   (232 words)

  
 The Daily Mail - Daily News from Pakistan - Newspaper from Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The land reforms that were intended to dilute feudalism proved to be no more than 'land division'.
Secondly, this concept lacked long-term vision because the upper limit set for the ownership of land was so low that that it was impossible for individuals to attain economies of scale by employing techniques of mechanized agriculture.
Land reforms were introduced yet again and capitalist economic policy was altered into an altogether different socialist strategy.
dailymailnews.com /200501/13/column.html   (2881 words)

  
 Land Reform Ordinance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Land Reforms Ordinance was a law in the state of Kerala, India under the E.M. Namboodiripad government limiting the amount of land one person could own.
The popularslogan for the radical socialists was "the land for tillers", which sent shockwaves through the landlord classes in the country.The ordinance set an absolute ceiling on the land a family could own.
The land reforms in Kerala imparted drastic changes to thepolitical, economic and social outlook.
www.therfcc.org /land-reform-ordinance-329575.html   (208 words)

  
 8. LAND
Land is defined in article 13(2) as including “the concept of territories, which covers the total environment of the areas which the peoples concerned occupy or otherwise use”.
Reforms in some countries have fallen far short of early expectations, due to a continuing or resurgent reluctance on the part of their governments to substantially reduce the state role in monitoring, approving and controlling land relations.
Where land rights have been limited to the individual farming and homestead plots of individual households, it is precisely these common areas - grazing land, wood lots, bodies of water, etc. - that are most vulnerable to exploitation and encroachment from outside, based on the legal fiction that such areas are “empty”.
www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/Y3872E/y3872e09.htm   (12752 words)

  
 Agrarian reform and rural development strategies in the post-cold war era
In the field of land tenure, there is a growing recognition among researchers and policy-makers, particularly in Africa, of the importance of customary rights and the participation of local communities in the management of natural resource use.
Land reform could significantly relieve pressure on marginal and ecologically-fragile lands, because in many developing countries land distribution is highly skewed with most agricultural land being concentrated in a small percentage of holdings.
Land reform is, however, most difficult to implement because land ownership and land distribution reflect the power structure within a country.
www.fao.org /docrep/w4760e/w4760e02.htm   (4983 words)

  
 Bangladesh - AGRICULTURE
Studies have suggested that in the mid-1980s the richest 10 percent of the village population controlled between 25 and 50 percent of the land, while the bottom 60 percent of the population controlled less than 25 percent.
Because Islamic inheritance law as practiced in Bangladesh calls for equal division of assets among all the sons, the large population increases led to increased fragmentation of landholdings and further impoverishment.
After decades of rural agitation, the 1984 Land Reforms Ordinance finally established the rule of three shares--one-third of the produce for the owner, one-third for the sharecropper, and one-third split according to the costs of cultivation.
countrystudies.us /bangladesh/67.htm   (1324 words)

  
 History Of Pakistan
A land reforms commission appointed by Ayub distributed some 900,000 hectares (2.2 million acres) of land among 150,000 tenants.
The reforms, however, did not erase feudal relationships in the countryside; about 6,000 landlords still retained an area three times larger than that given to the 150,000 tenants.
Bhutto's nationalization programme and land reforms further earned him the enmity of the entrepreneurial and capitalist class, while religious leaders saw in his socialism an enemy of Islam.
www.angelfire.com /ia/yasir710/history/history.html   (3544 words)

  
 Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
Inscriptions from the Land of Isreal 330 BCE-614 CE [At Iath]
Ordinance of the Jews of the Crown of Aragon, 1354 CE This ordinance or takkanah was the product of an increased sense of Jewish vulnerability in the years after the Black Death (1348).
Ordinances from assembly of the Jews of the kingdom of Castile at Valladolid in 1432.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html   (5504 words)

  
 POLITICS & POLICY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The police reform ordinance which was approved by the federal cabinet last week was formally promulgated on the auspicious day of Aug. 14 by President General Pervez Musharraf.
The ordinance which replaces the police act of 1861 extends to whole of Pakistan and comes into force with immediate effect.
This money is to be spent within a span of three to five years to provide better training to the police personnel as well as for the procurement of modern equipment and development of infrastructure.
www.pakistaneconomist.com /issue2002/issue33/etc3.htm   (562 words)

  
 The Hindu : Ordinance will promote afforestation: Mani
The ordinance gives exemption to cut and remove nine varieties of trees including teak, rosewood, irul, thenmavu, kambakam, chembakam, chadachi, chandanaveppu and chenni standing on private land without any permission from the Government.
The Minister said the Cabinet had decided to issue ordinances on the Kerala Stamp Act (Amendment), 2003, and the Kerala Land Reforms Act (Amendment), 2003, besides deciding to present all the 21 bills recommended by the Law Reforms Committee before the House at the next session.
The Kerala Stamp Duty (Amendment) Ordinance seeks to reduce the present rate of stamp duty for land transactions by half, in order to cut down the tendency of stamp duty evasion which springs from the present high rates.
www.hinduonnet.com /2003/11/14/stories/2003111408050400.htm   (553 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The proposed component will support similar reforms in water service delivery in self-selected municipalities (or groups of municipalities) willing to undertake reform of their water supply services.
The area elevation curve shows that 50% of the land area is below 12.5m altitude (height from sea level) and 75% of the area lies below 29m.
Table 2.1 gives different land type- their inundation depths and aerial extents and Figure 2.6 shows the generalized inundation land types of Bangladesh.
www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/04/29/000012009_20040429114121/Rendered/INDEX/E938.txt   (16088 words)

  
 ML Update: a CPI(ML) Weekly News Magazine
Lands were washed away – more than 2500 hectares – and thousands of farm hands rendered jobless.
Demanding distribution of ceiling lands and protesting the falsely framed cases against AIALA leaders by the police, a rally was held on 21 Feb at Kakinada, district headquarters of E. Godavari in AP.
in the state is not willing to implement land reforms and several false cases have been imposed on the leaders who are spearheading the land struggles.
www.cpiml.org /PGS/ML_UPD/VOL8/8_08.htm   (2566 words)

  
 Land Reforms Ordinance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Land Reforms Ordinance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The Land Reforms Ordinance was a law in the state of (additional info and facts about Kerala) Kerala, (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India under the (additional info and facts about E. Namboodiripad) E.
This, along with an (additional info and facts about Education Bill) Education Bill, raised a massive uproar from the landlord classes.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/La/Land_Reforms_Ordinance.htm   (201 words)

  
 Bangladesh AGRICULTURE - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
The ownership of agricultural land remained one of the most difficult problems in the Bangladesh countryside.
Legal ceilings on landownership resulted in little extra land for distribution to the poor because landlords arranged ways to vest ownership in the names of relatives.
The renting households range from those without any land of their own to those middle-level peasants who try to supplement the produce grown on their own land with income from produce grown on additional land.
www.photius.com /countries/bangladesh/economy/bangladesh_economy_agriculture.html   (1388 words)

  
 Bangladesh Structure of Agricultural Production - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
As a result, in most villages a few families controlled enough land to live comfortably and market a surplus for cash, while a large percentage of families had either no land or not enough to support themselves.
Inheritance, purchase, and sale left the land of many families subdivided into a number of separate plots located in different areas of the village.
In fact, the structure of rural land control kept a great deal of power in the hands of relatively small groups of landlords (see Local Elites, ch.
www.photius.com /countries/bangladesh/economy/bangladesh_economy_structure_of_agricul~6692.html   (1391 words)

  
 Empowering the provinces -DAWN - Business; 22 March, 2004
The second generation of reforms, says the finance minister, will further improve the competitive environment for an expanded private sector.
But all success stories- whether of the East Asia or China- had two fundamental elements in common: land reforms and 80-90 literacy and education.
The government has ruled out land reforms that could cut farm size to more economic and efficient production levels.
www.dawn.com /2004/03/22/ebr3.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Reorganisation of Revenue Field Administration in Orissa
It is intended that the process of updating the land records will be a continuous process, with the aid of computerisation.
Without prejudice to this reiteration, all matters relating to Revenue, Land Reforms, Land Records Management, Registration, Land Acquisition etc will, as per the reorganisation, be handled by the 'District Revenue Office', a semi-independent office within the generic District Collectorate.
Two officers (Asst Commissioners, Land Reforms) of the rank of OAS Class I (JB) will be diverted from the Board of Revenue.
www.geocities.com /bororissa/rev.html   (5659 words)

  
 1959   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is aimed to break the concentration of landed wealth, which is presently retained among some 6,000 landlords throughout West Pakistan.
It is also hoped that the area of inequality will be reduced and more intensive use of land and productive investment in agriculture by the actual tiller of the soil will be encouraged.
All tenants would have security of tenure: compensation would be paid for legal ejectment and an embargo placed on rent increases and illegal exactions in the shape of fees, free labor or services.
pakistanspace.tripod.com /59.htm   (991 words)

  
 Pakistan Link Headlines
There were also allegations that in order to strengthen the grip of the feudals on the province, the Chief Minister had rigged the 1951 elections of the provincial assembly.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took advantage of this situation and befooled the masses by raising the slogan of 'land for the tillers'.
However the land reforms of his government could not even make a small dent on feudalism.
www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/Feb/24/17.html   (589 words)

  
 Land Reforms Ordinance from LiveJournal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Surprisingly enough, despite toting a rather large piece of ordinance, Wolf manages to dive and roll to the side to avoid the incoming flying saucer with kid attatched, tumbling away and back to his knees once it's sped past.
it is always a continuing process, that the goal is a large base approach in ordinance, government that is under human rights and justice but the process in a continuing struggle towards the advancement.
This is shown from the public schools in early Massachusetts, to the northwest land ordinance, to the federal grant in the 1860’s/70’s that provided land for all the schools with “State” in their name, to the tradition of public schools we have today.
www.ljseek.com /search/Land%20Reforms%20Ordinance   (824 words)

  
 :: The Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 ::
(b) in clause (4), for the words and commas "the First Schedule, not being a law which relates to, or is connected with, economic reforms," the words and figure "Part II of the First Schedule" shall be substituted.
The Land Reforms (Balochistan Pat Feeder Canal) Regulation, 1972.
The Land Reforms (Pat Feeder Canal Regulation) (Amendment) Act, 1975 (Balochistan Act VII of 1975).
www.pakistanconstitution-law.com /Amend4.asp   (1491 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.