BHOODAN MOVEMENT (DONATION OF LAND)

1951 First Bhoodan in village Pochampalli, Nalgonda District, Andhra (the hotbed of
Telengana movement)By local Zamindar V. Ramchandra Reddy to Vinoba Bhave.
1953 Jayaprakash Narayan withdrew from active politics to join the Bhoodan
movement
Bhoodan movement had two components:
Collect land as gift from zamindars and rich farmers
Redistribute that gifted/donated land among the landless farmers.
Bhoodan-Mechanism,features and procedure
(Hierarchy) Vinoba: Sarvodaya Samaj=> Pradesh Bhoodan Committees in each
region=> local committees and individual social workers @grassroot.
Bhoodan Worker took help of Gram Panchayat, Patwari (village accountant) to
survey the beneficiaries and land fertility.
First preference given to landless agricultural laborers, then to farmers with
insufficient land A date was fixed, entire village gathered and the beneficiary
family was given land.
Those who receive the donation are asked to sign a printed application requesting
for land, after which they are presented with certificates of having received land.
No fees charged from the beneficiary but they were expected to cultivate the land
for atleast 10 years. He should start within three years of the receipt of land.
These Rules/procedures were relaxed by taking local conditions, cultures in
account.
Many state governments made legislation to facilitate donation and distribution of
Bhoodan land. Example: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil
Nadu, Karnataka, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, U.P., Delhi and Himachal Pradesh.

Subsequently, the movement was widened into Gramdan. States again passed special
legislation for management of Gramdan villages