NATIONAL TASKFORCE ON LAND REFORMS

Background:

• In 2012, Ekta Parishad movement mobilised more than 60,000 landless people from across the country for a similar padayatra from Gwalior to Delhi.
  
  
• They disbanded at Agra after then Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh promised homestead land of ten cents for all landless rural poor households and a draft National Land Reform Policy, as part of a ten-point agreement.
  
  
• To enforce the agreement, the Centre set up a 15-member task force on land reforms headed by the then rural development minister Jairam Ramesh and Tribal Affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo.
  
  
• However, After Mr. Ramesh quit as Rural Development Minister, the taskforce was shut down. But, now the government has agreed to reconstitute it to have an institutional mechanism to deal with the issue of Land Reform.