UPSC Prelims 2019 Question:

With reference to land reforms in independent India, which one of the following statements is correct?

Explanation: 

• At the time of independence, India was an agrarian economy (land remained the means of livelihood for the larger section of society) and had inherited a very inequitable agrarian system. Land reforms were major reforms in the agrarian structure, especially in landholdings and the distribution of land that benefitted the maximum number of people by improving their economic conditions.
  
  
• The government took three main steps to realize the objectives of land reforms,
  
  

• Abolition of Intermediaries
  
  

• The age-old exploitative land tenure systems of the Zamindari, Mahalwari and Ryotwari were fully abolished. 
  
  

• Tenancy Reforms
  • Regulation of rent
  • Security of tenure
  • Ownership rights to tenant
    
    
• Reorganization of Agriculture:
  • Redistribution of land among the landless poor masses after promulgating timely ceiling laws
  • Consolidation of land
  • Cooperative farming
    
    

Therefore, option (2) is the correct answer.

Subject: History | Miscellaneous(hist)