{"id":41970,"date":"2025-11-08T09:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=41970"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:06:11","slug":"steps-for-implementing-land-reforms-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/steps-for-implementing-land-reforms-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps for Implementing Land Reforms in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in News?<\/li>\n<li>Promises Related to the Land Reforms Made in the Union Budget 2024-2025<\/li>\n<li>Significance of Actions on Reforms around Land<\/li>\n<li>Challenges Towards Implementing Actions on Land Reforms<\/li>\n<li>What is the Scheme for Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment 2024-25?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Centre has decided to provide states with Rs 10,000 crore in incentives for implementing land-related reforms in rural and urban areas, and Rs 5,000 crore for creating a Farmers\u2019 Registry during the financial year 2024-25 (FY25).<\/li>\n<li>The funds will be provided under the Scheme for Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment 2024-25.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Promises Related to the Land Reforms Made in the Union Budget 2024-2025:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Land-related reforms in the rural areas:\u00a0<\/strong>These will include &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Assignment of unique land parcel identification numbers (ULPIN) or<strong>\u00a0Bhu-Aadhaar\u00a0<\/strong>for all lands,<\/li>\n<li>Digitisation of cadastral maps,<\/li>\n<li>Survey of map subdivisions as per current ownership,<\/li>\n<li>Establishment of land registry, and<\/li>\n<li>Linking to the farmers registry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Land-related reforms on the urban front:\u00a0<\/strong>These will include &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Digitisation of land records with GIS mapping.<\/li>\n<li>Establishing an IT-based system for property record administration, updating, and tax administration.<\/li>\n<li>These will facilitate\u00a0<strong>improving the financial position of urban local bodies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementation of the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in agriculture:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian government (in partnership with States) will facilitate the implementation of the DPI in agriculture for coverage of farmers and their lands in 3 years.<\/li>\n<li>This programme will include a \u201c<strong>digital survey<\/strong>\u201d of the kharif crop in 400 districts and the land details being brought into a \u201c<strong>land registry<\/strong>\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>These actions will facilitate credit flow and other agricultural services to rural land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Significance of Actions on Reforms around Land:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It points towards a\u00a0<strong>recognition that States are the key actors\u00a0<\/strong>on these issues, and that\u00a0<strong>approaches and constraints can vary across States<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Overall better land registries and cadastral maps are key &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To understanding land-use around the country<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>To enforce building codes, and<\/li>\n<li>To evaluate the risks due to various hazards, including\u00a0<strong>natural disasters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Information about land-use and land-use change are also key to understanding India\u2019s\u00a0<strong>emissions inventory.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Challenges Towards Implementing Actions on Land Reforms:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India has been trying to develop such land maps since the 1980s, with limited success.<\/li>\n<li>One particular pitfall has been<strong>\u00a0lack of standards<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>These maps have been made by\u00a0<strong>manual digitisation<\/strong>\u00a0and are\u00a0<strong>not properly georeferenced<\/strong>, i.e. the digital data is not mapped to fixed geographical coordinates.<\/li>\n<li>The States have used\u00a0<strong>different mapping projections,<\/strong>\u00a0so maps prepared by one State\u2019s processes are not directly compatible with those of another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thus, it is important to develop GIS data standards and interoperability for various end applications first.<\/li>\n<li>These efforts also\u00a0<strong>need technology support and upgrading<\/strong>, while appropriate and enabling institutional arrangements will need to be worked out at state and city levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What is the Scheme for Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment 2024-25?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In view of a\u00a0<strong>higher multiplier effect\u00a0<\/strong>of capital expenditure and in order to provide a boost to capital spending by States, the scheme was<strong>\u00a0announced in the Union Budget 2024-25.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The scheme (first launched in 2020-21)\u00a0<strong>provides financial assistance to state governments<\/strong>\u00a0in the form of 50-year interest-free loans for capital investment projects.<\/li>\n<li>In 2024-25, the scheme was redesigned with an overall allocation of \u20b91.30 lakh crore, and includes 2 mandatory conditions for the next fiscal year:<\/li>\n<li>With many states tweaking the names of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/centrally-sponsored-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\">centrally sponsored schemes (CCSs)<\/a>, the Centre has made it mandatory that to avail of the capex loan,\u00a0<strong>states would have to retain the official name of all schemes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Centre has now mandated that states have to deposit the central share of interest earned in SNA accounts till March 31 (2024), in the Consolidated Fund of India.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The single nodal agencies (SNA) model<\/strong>\u00a0requires states to notify an SNA for each CSS to receive funds from both the Centre and from state budgets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q.1. Why is capital expenditure important?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Capital expenditure, which leads to the creation of assets, is long-term in nature and allows the economy to generate revenue for many years by adding or improving production facilities and boosting operational efficiency.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q.2. What do you mean by multiplier effect?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In macroeconomics, the multiplier effect refers to the increase in national income due to an external stimulus, like an increase in demand or spending power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/business\/centres-guidelines-for-special-assistance-to-states-finalised-rs-10000-crore-for-land-reforms-9516707\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Centre\u2019s guidelines for special assistance to states finalised, Rs 10,000 crore for land reforms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has decided to provide states with incentives for implementing land-related reforms in rural and urban areas, and for creating a Farmers\u2019 Registry during the financial year 2024-25 (FY25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}