Ministry of Land & Land Reforms (West Bengal)

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Ministry of Land & Land Reforms
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Preceding Department
Jurisdiction Government of West Bengal
Headquarters Writers' Building, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
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]

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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]

Ministerial History

Previously, Ministry of Land & Land Reforms was known as Ministry of Land & Land Revenue, and Hare Krishna Konar held the first position during the United Front rule from 1967 to 1970. After the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, the title of the office was renamed to Ministry of Land & Land Reforms, and the Land Revenue department merged into this department and was held by Benoy Choudhury until his resignation in 1991. From 1991, Abdur Razzak Molla held this position till 2011.

List of Ministers of Land & Land Reforms

No.NamePortraitTerm of officePartyChief Minister
1 Benoy Choudhury biny' kRssnn caudhurii.jpg 21 June 197724 April 1991 Communist Party of India (Marxist) Jyoti Basu
2 Abdur Razzak Molla 24 April 19916 November 2000
6 November 200013 May 2011 Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
3 Mamata Banerjee Official portrait of Mamata Banerjee (cropped).jpg 13 May 2011Incumbent Trinamool Congress Herself

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