Ministry of Land & Land Reforms (West Bengal)

Ministry of Land & Land Reforms
Department overview
Preceding Department	Ministry of Land & Land Revenue;
Jurisdiction	Government of West Bengal
Headquarters	Writers' Building, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Minister responsible	Mamata Banerjee, Cabinet Minister;
Deputy Minister responsible	Chandrima Bhattacharya, Minister of State;
Website	Department of Land and Land Reforms

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]

Minister of Land & Land Reforms

Ministerial Team

The 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

Previously, 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

No.	Name	Term of office		Party	Chief Minister
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		Jyoti Basu
(3)	Abdur Razzak Molla	2000	2011		Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
4	Mamata Banerjee	2011	Incumbent	Trinamool Congress	Herself

References

^ ^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)

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[WBGOV.com-1] 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)

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