QUESTION 8
GS3
10 marks
Establish relationship between land reforms, agricultural productivity and elimination of poverty in the Indian economy. Discuss difficulties in designing and implementing agriculture-friendly land reforms in India.
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7 min
200 words
What the examiner wants
Link land reforms to farm productivity and poverty, and explain why good land reforms are hard in India.
Establish relationship; DiscussAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Links: tenancy security encourages investment; redistribution gives poor assets; small farms often more productive per acre (inverse relationship)≈35 words
- 2Evidence: Operation Barga (West Bengal), Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir land reforms reduced rural poverty≈35 words
- 3Difficulties: poor land records, benami holdings, ceiling evasion, political will, concealed tenancy due to lease bans, fragmentation≈35 words
- 4Way forward: digitised records, conclusive titling, legal leasing≈35 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Three-way relationshipEvidenceDesign and implementation difficultiesReforms
Where marks usually go
- Only listing land reform types without the productivity-poverty link
- No state examples
Draw this
- Triangle: land reform ↔ productivity ↔ poverty reduction, with mechanisms on arrows
Value addition
- DataAverage holding size fell to 1.08 ha; small and marginal holdings about 86%.Agriculture Census 2015-16
- LawModel Agricultural Land Leasing Act (2016), from T. Haque Committee, to legalise and protect tenancy.NITI Aayog, 2016
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- Shubhra Roy · Page 40 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
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