Ministry of Land & Land Reforms (West Bengal)
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The Department of Land & Land Reforms & Refugee Relief & Rehabilitation of West Bengal is a West Bengal government department.[1] It is a ministry mainly responsible for the formulation of policies, Acts, Rules and procedures relating to land matters, namely, land records and survey, land revenue, land reforms, land use and management of government lands.[1]
Department overview | |
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Preceding Department |
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Jurisdiction | Government of West Bengal |
Headquarters | Writers' Building, Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
Minister responsible | |
Deputy Minister responsible | |
Website | Department of Land and Land Reforms |
Minister of Land & Land Reforms
editMinisterial Team
editThe ministry also headed the department of requisition and acquisition of land as well as their implementation by way of preparation and revision of Records of right, including recording of sharecroppers (bargadars); vesting and distribution of ceiling surplus land; determination of the requirement of land by tea gardens, factories etc.; mutation of ownership and conversion of classification of land; assessment and collection of land revenue and cesses; requisition and acquisition of land administration of the Calcutta Thika and other Tenancies and Lands (Acquisition & Regulation) Act, 1981, the West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1997, the West Bengal Public Demand Recovery, 1913 and other Acts. The ministerial team at the MHA is headed by the Cabinet Minister for Land & Land Reforms, who may or may not be supported by Ministers of State. Civil servants are assigned to them to manage the ministers' office and ministry.[1]
History
editPreviously, Minister of Land and Land Reform was also known as Minister of Land and Land Revenue, and Hare Krishna Konar held the first position while the government that was in power was the United Front. In 1969, the office was renamed to Minister of Land and Land Reforms under the same government. And was succeeded by Benoy Choudhury in 1977, during the left-wing government. Later, Abdur Razzak Molla held this position till 2011.
List of Land reforms Ministers
editNo. | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Party | Chief Minister | ||
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1 | Hare Krishna Konar | 1 March 1967 | 21 November 1967 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) United Front | Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee | ||
– | Vacant (President's rule) | 1968 | 1969 | N/A | N/A | ||
(1) | Hare Krishna Konar | 25 February 1969 | 16 March 1970 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) United Front | Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee | ||
– | Vacant | 1970 | 1977 | Vacant | Vacant | ||
2 | Benoy Choudhury | 1977 | 1991 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Jyoti Basu | ||
3 | Abdur Razzak Molla | 1991 | 2000 | ||||
(3) | Abdur Razzak Molla | 2000 | 2011 | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | |||
4 | Mamata Banerjee | 2011 | Incumbent | Trinamool Congress | Herself |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Official Departmental Website of the Ministry of Land & Land Reforms Archived 7 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine Government of West Bengal (2011-05-25)