Achieving SDGs through land consolidation in rural regions of Uttar Pradesh state in India ppt
Aswani Kumar Munnangi, Bharat Lohani, Subhas Chandra Misra, Vipul Sharma
Uttar Pradesh is a state in the northern part of India with 1,06,773 villages which account to 16.66% of the total number of villages in the country and the rural population in the state is 18.6% of the total rural population in the country (numbers are according to 2011 Census of India). These numbers signify the importance of sustainable rural development in the state so that the quality and standard of living of the rural community be improved.
With the increase in population, right to inheritance and frequent changes in land ownership due to sales, agricultural landholdings are fragmented to smaller and scattered units thereby lowering agricultural productivity. This problem is evident in developing countries like India. To overcome the challenges hurled by fragmented landholdings, nations around the world have employed land consolidation.
In India, “Land is a state issue”. Hence land administration, legislation and reforms related to land are under the purview of the respective state governments. Post-independence from British rule, all the state governments in the country, have focused on laying down various land reforms to improve the social and economic conditions of its population. Among them, Zamindari abolition is the most critical and successful land reform in the country. Apart from Zamindari abolition, among 29 states and seven union territories, 17 states and one union territories have enacted legislation for land consolidation. This is also an important act that is neglected by many states. Uttar Pradesh is the only state in the whole country that is still implementing it for 64 years from the time of its inception and is unarguably the largest entity in the world that is undertaking land consolidation at a bigger scale.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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