Bhoodan movement

bhoodan mvement

1. INTRODUCTION Initiated by – Acharya Vinoba Bhave , a trusted follower of Mahatma Gandhi in April, 1951. Started at – Telengana in Hyderabad Bhoodan movement had two components: Achrya Vinoba Bhave BHOODAN   MOVEMENT Collect land as gift from zamindars and rich farmers . Redistribute that gifted or donated land among the landless farmers.

2. O B J E C T I V E S To bring a social order based on equality of opportunities by ensuring balanced economic distribution . Power should be decentralised from village to village. Everybody should have a right on land and property. There should be no distribution in the matter of wages etc .

3. ACTIVITY On 18 April, 1951 at Pochampalli village Vinoba was offered 100 acres of land by Ram Chandra Reddy after he appealed to the assembled villagers in his prayer meeting to do something for the Harijans of the village. On 19 April, 1952 he termed the previous gift as bhoodan and realized that bhoodan could provide a solution to the problem of extreme inequality in the country. Thus,Vinoba and his followers undertook pad-yatra from village to village and persuaded the landowners to donate at least one-sixth of their land bhoodan for distribution among the landless and the land poor.

4. He secured 12,000 acres land in bhoodan in 51 days emboldened Vinoba to continue the mission and finally prompted him to resolve on Gandhi's birthday in 1951 to collect fifty million acres of land for the landless from the whole country by 1957. ACTIVITY Bhoodan movement in odisha Gopabahdhu Choudhury Rama Devi Bhoodan programme was started in O d is h a on 7 January, 1952 by Gopabandhu Choudhury and his wife Rama Devi. About 2100 acer land was collected. Gramdan Gramdan an offshoot of Bhoodan programme, which was started in1952 where the entire population of the village donated their land in bhoodan .

5. Advantages Disadvantages Initial year of this movement was achieved success in northern India especially in Uttar pradesh and Bihar. By 1956 ,4 million acer of land collected as donation. Landlords were under no completion to give their land. This movement was unofficial and voluntary movement. Promote Gandhian philosophy of trusteeship that all land belongs to God. After 1956 this movement was slow down. Village landowners demanded money for allotment . Bhoodan created starvation among landless people. Some big landowners donate their land which was unfit for cultivation. Allotment of land were not sufficient because poor farmer need fertilizer, pesticides, insecticide

6. CONCLUSION Although concept and idea was really good but this was not a successful movement, but still we can say some landless people got some land despite of failure.