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Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement

News: A village from Maharashtra petitioned the Bombay High Court to enforce the Gramdan Act.

Vinoba Bhave founded the sociopolitical Bhoodan Movement in 1951 in India.

Vinoba Bhave, a student of Mahatma Gandhi who served as the first person Satyagrahi and actively took part in India’s Freedom Struggle, was a Satyagrahi.

After India gained its independence, he realised that the lack of access to land was a significant issue for rural areas, and in 1951 he launched the Bhoodan Movement, often known as the movement for the gift of land.

It was designed to encourage affluent landowners to give some of their property to peasants who were without land.

When Bhave travelled from village to village asking landowners to donate their property, the initiative picked up steam.

The Gramdan Movement, also known as the village gift movement, was the next stage of the Bhoodan movement.

It attempted to establish community land ownership, resulting in self-sufficient settlements.

In order for the village council to manage and distribute the donated land to the inhabitants, the Gramdan movement persuaded the villagers to surrender their land to the council.

Many political figures supported this campaign, which they saw as a solution to the issue of unequal land distribution in rural India.