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HE WEST BENGAL LAND REFORMS ACT, 1955

Legislation
March, 1938
India
land law
This Act may be called the West Bengal land Reforms Act, 1955. It extends to the whole of West Bengal [except the area described in Schedule I of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980, but not excepting the area included in the said Schedule, which, immediately before the coming into force of the Calcutta Muncipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1983, wascomprised in the municipality of Jadavpur, South Suburban or Garden Reach.

This act is modified up to the 1st January, 1999.
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The Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960

Legislation
September, 1960
India
land law
This Act may be called the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960.

It extends to the whole of the State of Manipur except the hill areas thereof: Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend the whole or any part of any section of this Act to any of the hill areas of Manipur also as may be specified in such notification.
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Right to Homestead land in Rural Bihar

A Study of its Status, Issues, and Challenges in Implementation of Policies and Provisions

Legislation
November, 2017
India
land law
Access to homestead land, and housing in turn, are basic requirements for human survival. Every citizen needs to have a safe, secure and healthy place to live, work and lead a life of dignity. A house provides not only physical protection against the vagaries of nature, but also space and privacy to an individual and his family for physical, emotional and intellectual growth.
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The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016

Legislation
August, 2016
India
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
compensation
forest conservation
forest land
forestry
An Act to deal with establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and of each State, credit the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered from such agencies under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.
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The Odisha Special Survey and Settlement Act, 2012

Legislation
September, 2012
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
codification
commons
land ownership
land rights
land subdivision
land use
land use mapping
private ownership
An Act to deal with undertaking survey and settlement operations in the State by adopting modern technology to minimize the time span without compromising the quality, transparency and grievance redressal and related matters.
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THE HINDU SUCCESSION ACT, 1956

Legislation
June, 1956
India
Land & Food Security
co-ownership rights
land tenure
property rights
women
A legislation to amend and codify the law relating to intestate succession among Hindus. It deal with issues related to coparcenary property, interest in the property of a tarwad, tavazhi, kutumba, kavaru or illom, rules of succession in the case of males, succession among heirs, distribution of property among heirs in class I of the Schedule.
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The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005

Legislation
September, 2005
India
Land & Food Security
land inheritance rights
land ownership
property rights
women
This Hindu Succession Act Amendment made in 2005 was to grant, among others, rights to women to inherit agricultural land of the parents and husband. Under this amendment the daughters, including married daughters, are coparceners in joint family property, with the same birth right as sons, to share, claim partition, and (by presumption) to become karta (managers), while also sharing the liabilities. This would be applicable for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains religious communities of India.
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Revised Compendium on Circulars & Guidelines on the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 & Rules, 2008 and Amendment Rules, 2012

Manuals & Guidelines
Legislation
September, 2012
India
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
community forestry
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India enacted the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, a tribal friendly legislation to address the historical injustice and critical issues, pertaining to the forest rights deprivation of the Forest Dwellers. To facilitate its implementation, FRA Rules, 2008 was framed and then made amendment to the Rules in 2012. However, several constraining factors and issues came to the notice in the implementation process of the Act in letter and spirit.
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The Orissa Government Land Settlement Act, 1962

Legislation
November, 1962
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
agriculture
land
land allocation
land ownership
land rights
land tenure
An Act to deal with the settlement of Government Land in the State of Odisha. It is enacted as a general legislation formulating a set of uniform principles regarding lease of Government waste lands with the primary objective of governing the settlement of waste lands in a planned manner uniformly throughout the State.
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THE ORISSA ESTATES ABOLITION ACT, 1951

Legislation
February, 1952
India
Land & Food Security
agrarian reform
land reform
tenant's rights
tenants
An Act to provide for the abolition of all the rights, title and interest in land of intermediaries by whatever name known, including the mortgagees and lessees of such interest, between the raiyat and the State of Odisha, for vesting in the said State of the said right, title and interest and to make provision for other matter connected therewith.