New Delhi: The opposition alliance in Bihar is exploring a poll promise to implement long-pending land reforms, reviving the 2006 D. Bandyopadhyay Commission’s recommendations that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar rejected during his first term despite having set up the committee himself.

The panel, steered by Bandyopadhyay, a retired civil servant who played a pivotal role in implementing land reforms in West Bengal in the late 1970s under Operation Barga, submitted its report in April 2008.

It recommended legislation to protect bataidars , or sharecroppers, and to impose a cap on land holdings. The recommendations were aimed at limiting land concentration, providing security to tenant farmers, and redistributing land to the landless and marginalised rural workers. Show Full Article

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